Three US soldiers killed and 13 injured in mortar attack

THREE American soldiers were killed and 13 injured in a mortar attack and a bombing in the volatile region of central Iraq, the US military reported yesterday.

The deaths followed an assassination attempt against a member of Iraq’s Governing Council.

Two US soldiers were killed when mortars hit a US base near the Abu Ghraib prison on the western outskirts of Baghdad on Saturday night. Thirteen other soldiers were injured in the attack.