Three US soldiers killed in Iraq

TWO American soldiers were shot dead while waiting in traffic in Mosul yesterday, a day after suicide bombers killed up to 20 people in attacks on two police stations northeast of Baghdad.

Elsewhere, another soldier was killed in a roadside bombing north of Baghdad yesterday, and three American civilian contractors were wounded in an explosion in the northern oil centre Kirkuk.

Witnesses said they saw gunmen open fire with Kalashnikov assault rifles on a three-vehicle convoy in the central Ras Jada district of the city. “The last car was hit and crashed into a wall,” said Atallah Karim Omar.