
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — An Alabama Army National Guard member serving in Iraq was killed in a Baghdad bombing that injured several other members of his company.
The National Guard identified the victim as Sgt. Aubrey D. Bell, 33, of Tuskegee. He served in the 214th Military Police Company.
Nine other members of the unit were injured in the Oct. 27 attack, which occurred at the Al Bayra police station in Baghdad, the National Guard said in a statement.
Bell’s longtime girlfriend, Philandria Ezell, said Bell was a father figure to her four children and talked with her about them when he called home on the morning of Oct. 26.
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