Two U.S. soldiers killed in bomb attack in Iraq

By Xinhua,

Baghdad : Two American soldiers were killed and two others injured in a roadside bomb attack in Salahudin province, north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Tuesday. According to a military statement, the attack occurred on Monday when the soldiers’ unit was conducting operations in the province.

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The blast also wounded two members of a local Awakening council group and a civilian interpreter.

The deceased soldiers’ names are being withheld pending notification of the next of kin, said the statement. The latest deaths bring the number of U.S. soldiers that have been killed in Iraq to more than 4,040 since the Iraq war broke out in 2003, according to media count based on Pentagon figures.