Three US soldiers die in convoy ambush

THREE American soldiers were killed yesterday when their convoy was hit by gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades in northern Iraq, a military spokeswoman said.

The killings were further signs that an insurgency against American troops is not losing strength as Washington hoped after the deaths Tuesday of Saddam Hussein’s sons Uday and Qusay.

V Corps spokeswoman Spc. Nicole Thompson said the soldiers, members of the 101st Airborne Division, were travelling in a convoy toward Qayyarah, 186 miles north of the capital, Baghdad, when they were attacked. No soldiers were reported wounded and it wasn’t known if any assailants were killed or wounded.