Death toll mounts in Iraq as two US soldiers killed in ambush

TWO American soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division were killed and one was injured in an ambush yesterday when their convoy came under rocket-propelled grenade and small arms fire in northern Iraq, the US military said.

The deaths brought to 151 the number of American soldiers killed in action since the March 20 start of the war, four more than the total killed in the 1991 Gulf war.

Also yesterday, a US soldier was killed and two others injured when their vehicle crashed and flipped over near Baghdad International Airport, according to a statement from US Central Command in Tampa, Florida.