Two US soldiers killed in Iraq as violence escalates

IRAQ’S cascade of violence has claimed more American lives, with a bomb attack on a military convoy killing one US soldier yesterday and gunmen slaying another in an ambush on a patrol in the capital.

Three American soldiers have been killed in attacks in Baghdad in a 24-hour period.

Early yesterday, insurgents threw a homemade bomb at a US convoy in northern Baghdad, killing a soldier, said Sgt Patrick Compton, a spokesman for the military. The night before, two gunmen ambushed a platoon in the Adhamiyah neighbourhood of northern Baghdad, and in the firefight that followed an American was killed, a military statement said.