A US soldier and an Iraqi civilian were killed when a roadside bomb hit an army convoy in northern Iraq on Sunday, the US military said, adding that in Fallujah four more US soldiers were killed in a vehicle accident.
The bomb blast struck a convoy south of the main northern city of Mosul, also wounding another US soldier.
"While the injured soldier was being treated following the explosion, a vehicle approached at a high rate of speed and fired on the convoy. The soldiers returned fire killing the driver," the military said in a statement.
"The bomb explosion also killed an Iraqi citizen that was driving behind the Task Force Olympia convoy."
A military spokesman said both the soldier who died and the other who was wounded were from the United States.
The convoy was from Task Force Olympia, which patrols northern Iraq, comprises mainly US troops but also has a small contingent from Albania and Australia.
A vehicle accident near the flash-point City of Fallujah killed four US marines, a military spokesman said on Sunday.
"The deaths were as a result of a vehicle accident in the Camp Fallujah area and are considered non-hostile," said the spokesman for the marines who are based around the insurgent bastion, 50 kilometres west of Baghdad.
Earlier, the US military had said the four marines died on Saturday "while conducting security and stability operations" without elaborating on the precise cause of death.
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