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Five American soldiers have been killed by a suicide bomb attack in Baghdad, witnesses said. Five US soldiers have been killed by a suicide bomb attack while they patrolled in Baghdad, the US army said.
The suicide bomber, wearing an explosive vest, approached the soldiers on a Baghdad street and blew himself up, Iraqi police told Reuters. The suicide bomber approached the patrol on a Baghdad street and blew himself up, Iraqi police told Reuters.
An Iraqi interpreter was also injured in the attack, reports said. Three other troops and an Iraqi interpreter were also injured in the attack, the US military said.
While the US confirmed an attack had taken place, it refused to confirm the death toll from the blast, which hit the soldiers while on foot patrol. The attack follows the killing of Thaer Ghadban al-Karkhi, a Sunni tribal leader, in a suicide bomb attack on his house near Baquba earlier on Monday.
The attack comes days after 68 people were killed in twin bomb attacks on a shopping area in central Baghdad, which the US blamed on al-Qaeda in Iraq. The US military told the BBC that the attack on its troops took place in the Mansour district of Baghdad.
"A terrorist wearing an explosive vest blew himself against a dismounted US patrol," Iraqi army spokesman Major General Qasim Ata told AFP.
"We remain resolute in our resolve to protect the people of Iraq and kill or capture those who would bring them harm," Colonel Allen Batschelet, chief of staff of US forces in Baghdad, told Reuters.
The attack is believed to be the most deadly strike on US forces in Baghdad for several months.
In the earlier attack, a woman detonated an explosives vest as al-Kharkhi answered his door, killing him, his daughter and two guards.
He was a member of the mainly Sunni Arab Awakening councils, allied with the US military against al-Qaeda in Iraq.
Sunni militias have been credited with helping to bring down the level of violence in Iraq in recent months.