Four US soldiers were killed in Iraq, three of them today when a roadside bomb detonated as they were evacuating a a colleague.
Eight soldiers were also wounded when the bomb exploded. The soldiers were evacuating a soldier who’d been injured when his convoy collided with a civilian vehicle, the US command said.
The location of the accident was not given.
Meanwhile, a fourth US soldier was killed by small arms fire in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Saturday, the military said, giving no other details.