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 SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - The grieving relatives of an Australian soldier killed in Iraq were distressed to learn that the wrong body was sent home in his place, the defense minister said Thursday.
Pvt. Jacob Kovco, 25, died in a U.S. military hospital in Baghdad last week, military officials said. He was accidentally shot in his room inside the heavily fortified Green Zone in the Iraqi capital.
Kovco was the second soldier with Australian citizenship to die in Iraq since the U.S.-led war began in 2003, but he was the Australian military's first casualty.
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