By NNN-KUNA,
Baghdad : Seven Iraqi insurgents were killed and four US soldiers were seriously injured in a gunfire north of the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad, the US military announced here.
A joint Iraqi-US forces clashed with elements of the Al-Qaeda Organisation in Iraq in the Al-Jazeera area, near Tekrit, Salah-Eddin Governorate, in north Baghdad.
The joint military operation left seven Qaeda suspects killed, three others detained and a large quantity of munitions seized.
But four US soldiers were seriously injured when an explosive belt went off while they were inspecting the body of an insurgent, according to the US military statement Wednesday.
The injured soldiers were hospitalised immediately, it added.
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