Updated at 2:14 p.m., Monday, February 5, 2007

Two Schofield soldiers die in vehicle accident in Iraq

By William Cole
Advertiser Staff Writer

Pfc. Kenneth T. Butler U.S. Army photo

The Pentagon today said two Schofield Barracks soldiers died in a vehicle accident Thursday in Baghdad, Iraq.

The soldiers were identified as Pfc. David C. Armstrong, 21, of Zanesville, Ohio; and Pfc. Kenneth T. Butler, 21, of East Liverpool, Ohio.

Both were assigned to the 57th Military Police Company, 8th Military Police Brigade, 8th Theater Sustainment Command with U.S. Army, Pacific. The incident is under investigation.

The Zanesville (Ohio) Times Recorder reported that the soldiers' Humvee jumped a curb and rolled over into a canal. Steep-banked and narrow canal roads, which pose a danger for relatively wide Humvees, crisscross sections of Iraq near the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

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