SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - A Puerto Rican soldier killed in Iraq last week will be buried in the island's national cemetery on Saturday, US military officials said.

Army Sergeant Carlos M Camacho Rivera, 24, of Carolina, Puerto Rico, was killed November 5 in a rocket attack in Fallujah, Iraq. He was assigned to the 368th Transportation Company, 11th Transportation Battalion at Fort Eustis, Virginia.

Camacho's body was scheduled to arrive yesterday night in San Juan on a commercial flight from Philadelphia, Army spokesman Jose Pagan said. He will be buried at the Puerto Rico National Cemetery in Bayamon, he said.

Camacho's death was not part of the current US offensive in Fallujah that began on Monday.

At least 21 soldiers from Puerto Rico or of Puerto Rican descent have been killed in the US government's so-called war on terror in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The US Caribbean territory's 4 million people cannot vote for US president and have no vote in the US Congress, though they are American citizens and have served in the US military for generations.

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