By Xinhua,
Baghdad : An Iraqi soldier was killed and four others were injured in a roadside bomb explosion near their vehicle in western Baghdad on Thursday, an Interior Ministry source said.
“A roadside bomb detonated after midday near a joint U.S. and Iraqi Army patrol on a main road in the neighborhood of al-Khadhra, killing an Iraqi soldier and wounding four others,” the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
The blast destroyed an Iraqi military Humvee in the predominantly Sunni neighborhood, the source said.
In eastern Baghdad, another roadside bomb struck a U.S. patrol on the al-Qanat Street near the al-Amin neighborhood, damaging a U.S. Humvee, he said.
It was unclear whether any U.S. soldier was killed or wounded by the attack as the troops immediately cordoned off the scene in the Shiite area, which is a stronghold of Mahdi Army militiamen, loyal to anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, he added.
The U.S. military did not confirm the two incidents yet.
Sporadic attacks continue in the Iraqi capital despite the relative lull of violence across the war-torn country, according to U.S. and Iraqi officials.