Two US troops have been killed and another wounded in separate incidents in Iraq over the past 24 hours, the US military said in a statement Friday.
In the latest incident early Friday, one soldier from the US 1st Armoured Division was killed and another wounded in a roadside bomb attack in the Al-Mansur district of Baghdad, the statement said.
Thursday, a US marine was killed as "a result of enemy action" in Al-Anbar province west of Baghdad, the statement added.
THREE IRAQI POLICEMEN KILLED: Three Iraqi police officers were killed and three wounded by gunmen who fired and threw a hand grenade at them, one of the injured men told AFP Friday.
The attack occurred late Thursday when a two-car police patrol was manning a key intersection in western Baquba, a restive town north of Baghdad, policeman Adel Jalal told AFP.
"Two cars drove up slowly towards our position and rained fire on us. Then one of the assailants threw a hand grenade, after shouting Allah-o-Akbar (God is the greatest), killing two officers and wounding three among us," he said.
Adel, who was hit in the leg and in the hand, said the car sped away after the attack.
One of the wounded, Mohamed Qasem, later died from his wounds, Lieutenant Falah Hassan told AFP.
Baquba is located within the so-called "Sunni triangle", a hotbed of insurgency against the US-led coalition occupying Iraq.
On Wednesday four policemen and six civilians were injured there when a car bomb exploded as a police car drove by.
SUICIDE BOMBER KILLS TWO: Two Iraqis were killed Friday when a suicide bomber blew himself up in the municipal council building in this northern Iraqi city, the Kirkuk police officer told AFP
"A man wearing an explosive belt tried to force his way into the municipal council building but guards stopped him so he detonated the explosives killing himself and two guards," Lieutenant Shirco Shaker Hakim said.
Hakim said an investigation was opened to determine the identity of the bomber.
Kirkuk has been a hotbed of anti-coalition violence with repeated attacks on US troops and their Iraqi allies.