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| A US soldier has been charged with five counts of murder one day after five comrades were shot dead at a military counselling clinic in Iraq. | |
| Sgt John Russell was also charged with one count of aggravated assault, spokesman Maj Gen David Perkins said. | Sgt John Russell was also charged with one count of aggravated assault, spokesman Maj Gen David Perkins said. |
| Sgt Russell, serving with the 54th Engineering Battalion based in Germany, was taken into custody after the shooting in Camp Liberty, Baghdad. | Sgt Russell, serving with the 54th Engineering Battalion based in Germany, was taken into custody after the shooting in Camp Liberty, Baghdad. |
| One Navy doctor, an Army doctor and three enlisted personnel were killed. | |
| The clinic provides troops with help for personal issues or combat stress. | |
| Maj Gen Perkins said a inquiry was under way into whether there were sufficient mental health facilities in Iraq for troops. | |
| Monday's shooting was the deadliest single incident involving US forces since 10 April, when five soldiers were killed by a truck bomb in the northern city of Mosul. |