US forces kill three Baghdad insurgents

Three Iraqi insurgents were killed and three others injured when US-led forces conducted a raid early today in the Baghdad neighbourhood of Sadr City.

The incident occurred about 12.30am local time when a joint US-Iraqi force was patrolling a neighbourhood in the southern part of the Shiite slum, searching for an insurgent cell suspected of smuggling weapons, including the devastating explosively formed penetrators, from Iran, the military said.