Marine from Canton, 19, killed in Iraq explosion

A 19-year-old Marine from Canton was killed in Iraq Thursday in a bombing attack that also left three other Marines dead, Pentagon officials said yesterday.

Lance Corporal Shayne M. Cabino was killed by a roadside bomb during combat operations near Al Karmah, a city near the embattled city of Fallujah and about 50 miles west of Baghdad, according to the Department of Defense. Cabino was a member of the Second Battalion, Second Regiment, Second Division of the Second Marine Expeditionary Force, based at Camp Lejeune, N.C.

He is the 31st serviceman from Massachusetts to be killed in Iraq since the war began in March 2003, according to Department of Defense records.

A man and a woman who answered phones at two family residences last night said family members did not want to speak about Cabino's death.

The other Marines who died Thursday included two from Pennsylvania and one from Michigan.

Two other Marines also died in unrelated attacks near the Syrian border, making Thursday one of the deadliest days for occupation forces during the past month.

Thursday also marked at least the third time in two weeks that six or more servicemen have died on the same day, according to Department of Defense records.

At least 1,950 servicemen have died in Iraq since March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.