SEATTLE -- Three Fort Lewis soldiers were killed Sunday by a homemade bomb while they were on patrol in Iraq at Baqubah (bah-KOO'-bah).

They were all members of the Fourth Stryker brigade that deployed in April.

They are identified by the Defense Department as 23-year-old Private First Class Marius Ferrero of Miami, Fla.; 26-year-old Corporal Jason Lee of Fruitport, Mich.; and 22-year-old Corporal Christopher Nelson of Rochester (Wash.).

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