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Four US soldiers, 10 Iraqi police killed in bomb attacks
AFP - Wednesday, September 9
BAGHDAD (AFP) - - A spate of roadside bomb attacks across Iraq on Tuesday killed four American soldiers and 10 Iraqi police, making it the bloodiest day that the US military has experienced in five months.
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The blasts followed a series of bombings on Monday that left 22 people dead nationwide, the worst violence since the Muslim holy month of Ramadan began more than two weeks ago.
Three of the American soldiers were killed when a homemade bomb struck their patrol near Baiji, a large town 200 kilometres (124 miles) north of Baghdad, a US army spokesman told AFP.
The death of a fourth US soldier, in a similar explosion in southern Baghdad, culminated in the highest number of American troops killed on a single day since April 10, when five died in a truck bomb attack in Mosul.
US combat troops formally withdrew from Iraqi towns, cities and villages on June 30 but they still operate in urban areas under the authority of the Iraqi security forces.
The latest deaths take to 4,342 the number of American soldiers killed since the US-led 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, according to an AFP tally based on the independent website icasualties.org.
Earlier on Tuesday, a northern Iraqi police chief and nine other officers were killed in a series of roadside bombs targeting patrols near the restive oil hub city of Kirkuk, officials said.
Lieutenant Colonel Zaid Hussein, the top-ranking officer in Amerli town, and three colleagues died when such a device struck their convoy, said Colonel Hussein al-Baiti, a senior officer in Kirkuk.
Four more police were killed when a roadside bomb engulfed their patrol in the south of the province, Baiti said.
Kirkuk, a mixed city of Arabs, Kurds and Turkmen 255 kilometres north of Baghdad, is the capital of the province of the same name.
Tensions between the Iraqi national government and the autonomous northern Kurdistan region over control of the disputed province remain high amid fears that a conflict could erupt.
A third roadside bomb killed two officers working as a protection force on a main road near the town of Daquq, also south of Kirkuk, and wounded two of their colleagues, a second police official said.
In Baghdad, meanwhile, a sticky bomb attached to a car exploded in the east of the capital, killing at least one person and leaving 12 others hurt, police said.
Further violence in the northern city of Mosul, where attacks remain common, saw a soldier shot dead at a checkpoint and a man killed when a roadside bomb exploded as he drove past in his car, local police said.
The latest casualties come after the number of violent deaths in Iraq hit a 13-month high in August, raising fresh concerns about stability after the government admitted that security is worsening.
Statistics compiled by the defence, interior and health ministries showed that 456 people -- 393 civilians, 48 police and 15 Iraqi soldiers -- were killed, the highest monthly toll since July 2008 when 465 died in unrest.
In stark contrast, August saw seven American soldiers killed, the lowest monthly toll since the invasion six-and-a-half years ago.
The high number of Iraqis killed last month was partly explained by twin truck bomb attacks on the finance and foreign ministries in Baghdad that left at least 95 people dead and 600 others wounded on August 19.
Those attacks triggered a diplomatic crisis when Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki blamed neighbouring Syria for failing to hand over two of the alleged planners of the finance ministry bombing.
Maliki sent extra troops to western Iraq at the weekend to secure the border with Syria, whose President Bashar al-Assad has dismissed allegations that Damascus is harbouring terrorists as "immoral" and politically motivated.
The United States has also accused Syria of having lax border controls that allow insurgents, including rebels linked to Al-Qaeda, to cross into Iraq.
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An injured soldier is brought into the hospital in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk. A spate of roadside bomb attacks across Iraq killed four American soldiers and 10 Iraqi police on Tuesday, in the bloodiest day that the US military has experienced in five months.
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