More U.S. troops were arriving in Baghdad Sunday amid reports from the U.S. military that it lost 19 soldiers in a single day.

The latest 3,200’soldier brigade should be ready to get to work by Feb. 1 as part of the “Iraqi Baghdad Security Plan,” a military official said in a statement.

The military said 19 U.S. soldiers died in four separate incidents Friday, including a helicopter crash that killed all 12 people on board, the Kuwait News Agency, KUNA reported.

The U.S. military said 3,047 American soldiers have been killed in the Iraq war, including 46 in January.

Initial reports on the crash of the U.S. Blackhawk helicopter northeast of Baghdad put its death toll at 13, but that number was later reduced to 12.

Five U.S. soldiers died and three were injured in a militia attack on the joint coordination headquarters in Karbala and two soldiers were killed by roadside bombs in separate incidents.

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