Four US soldiers killed in Iraq

Four US soldiers were killed in Iraq, three of them on Monday when a roadside bomb detonated as they were evacuating a fellow soldier.

Four US soldiers were killed in Iraq, three of them on Monday when a roadside bomb detonated as they were evacuating a fellow soldier, the US military said.

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Eight soldiers were also wounded when the roadside bomb exploded. The soldiers were evacuating a soldier who'd been injured when his convoy collided with a civilian vehicle, the US command said in a statement. The location of the accident was not given.

Meanwhile, a fourth US soldier was killed by small arms fire in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Sunday, the military said, giving no other details.