Meanwhile, at least fifty-eight Iraqis died Sunday, including thirteen who were killed when the heavily fortified Green Zone was shelled by mortars. The shelling has been described as one of the fiercest and most sustained attacks on the US-controlled zone in the last year. In the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, twelve Iraqi soldiers died when a suicide truck bomber attacked their Army garrison. Four other Iraqi soldiers died in a roadside bomb in the Hamrin Mountains.