Four U.S. Soldiers Killed in Spate of Iraq Attacks

Fri December 26, 2003 08:07 AM ET

By Joseph Logan

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Guerrillas extended the biggest insurgent attacks in Iraq since Saddam Hussein's capture, killing four U.S. soldiers in mortar and bomb attacks, the U.S. military said on Friday.

A roadside bomb killed one soldier and wounded another when it exploded by a convoy near Baquba, about 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, early on Friday. A second soldier was killed the same day trying to defuse a bomb outside the town, a U.S. military spokesman said.

Two other U.S. soldiers were killed in a mortar attack on a U.S. camp near Baquba on Thursday.

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