By DPA
Baghdad : A bomb attack and an explosion killed five US soldiers in Iraq in separate incidents, the US military said early Saturday.
Four of the deaths took place northwest of Baghdad Friday when the soldiers’ vehicle hit an improvised explosive device (IED) while on patrol, the US military said in a press statement.
The fifth soldier was killed in an explosion near his vehicle in At-Tamim northeast of Tikrit Friday. The blast injured three soldiers.
Earlier Friday, at least five people were killed and one injured in separate attacks, Iraqi officials and media reports said Friday.
In Kirkuk, around 250 km north of Baghdad, a car bomb targeting a patrol killed two civilians and three policemen, sources told DPA.
In the southern city of Basra, militants killed a Sunni Imam after kidnapping him, his son and another person from his house in the al-Jameiat district, a statement from the Sunni Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq said.
The Imam’s son and the third person were released.