Two US soldiers killed in Baghdad shootout

Two US Army soldiers were killed and one was wounded during a small arms skirmish with insurgents while transporting a detainee north of Baghdad, the military said today.

A civilian and the detainee were also killed in the incident late last night near Buhriz, a former stronghold of ousted dictator Saddam Hussein about 35 miles north of Baghdad. Five Iraqi police were wounded, the military said.