A roadside bomb killed 10 US marines and wounded 11 outside of the troubled Iraqi city of Fallujah in one of the deadliest attacks in recent months, the US military said Friday.
The marines were on a foot patrol outside of Fallujah, just west of Baghdad, when they were attacked on Thursday, said a US marines statement.
"The patrol was attacked with an IED (improvised explosive device) fashioned from several large artillery shells," said the statement.
It said seven of those injured in the incident had returned to duty.
The dead were from the 2nd Marine Division's Regimental Combat Team 8, the statement said, adding that the names were withheld pending notification of next of kin.
Another US marine was killed in Fallujah on Wednesday. The attack was the deadliest on US forces in Iraq since an August.