By Xinhua
Baghdad : An Iraqi soldier shot dead two US soldiers and injured three in the city of Mosul in Nineveh province, 400 km north of Baghdad, on Dec 26, the US military said Saturday.
The incident, in which a civilian interpreter was also injured, took place when the US and Iraqi soldiers were conducting a joint operation.
The Iraqi soldier fled the scene after the attack but was later arrested along with two other soldiers who are suspected of being associated with the incident, the military said.
“The soldier is apparently an insurgent infiltrator, who was part of a joint US and Iraqi patrol conducting security operation in the al-Haramat area west of the city of Mosul,” Brigadier-General Mutaa al-Khazraji, the commander of the Iraqi Army 2nd Division said.
“When the patrol came under insurgent fire, the soldier opened fire at US soldiers and killed two of them,” he added.