Al-Suwaira fuel dump explosion

Al-Suwaira attack
	Part of the Iraq War
Date	January 9, 2005
Location	Al-Suwaira, Wasit Governorate, Iraq
Result	Attack successful
Belligerents
Multinational Division Central-South Poland; Ukraine; Kazakhstan;	Islamic Army of Iraq
Units involved
72nd Mechanized Battalion; KAZBAT Battalion	?
Casualties and losses
8 killed, 6 wounded; 1 killed, 4 wounded	?

On January 9, 2005, a 27-man team of Kazakh sappers from the Kazbat engineer battalion collected 35 aerial bombs that Iraqi police had found stashed near the central military base of Al-Suwaira, located 6 miles south of Baghdad. The bombs were loaded onto transport trucks from where they would be defused at the Al-Suwaira Multinational Division Central-South army base.