Three Iraqi guardsmen die in convoy ambush

Insurgents ambushed a convoy of American and Iraqi forces in the northern city of Mosul, detonating a roadside bomb and firing from a mosque in an attack that killed three Iraqi national guardsmen, the US military said today.

The troops were taking heaters and other supplies to a school when they came under attack yesterday, a military statement said. The convoy was hit with a roadside bomb and then sprayed with gunfire from a nearby mosque. Three Iraqi troops were killed and six were wounded.