Residents said that 20 people, including 11 children, were killed when a missile attack struck a farm on the southeast edge of Baghdad on Saturday night.
British troops near Basra reported Sunday that they had discovered a Geiger counter and nerve gas simulators marked "dangerous to humans if exposed for 10 minutes without a respirator."
US Marines near the southern city of Nasiriyah also discovered two decontamination vehicles as well as hundreds of chemical warfare suits and gas masks in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah, the Central Command said yesterday.
In the north, Iraqi positions on the frontlines between government troops and Kurdish rebel-held territory came under air attack for a third night running.
The latest official US toll stood at at least 39 dead and 15 missing since the launch of the campaign. A total of 25 British servicemen have been killed.
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