BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) — Three American soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb attack near a market in southern Baghdad on Thursday, the US military said in a statement.
"Three multi-national division-Baghdad soldiers died when an improvised explosive device detonated near their patrol in Baghdad at approximately 10:40 am May 21," it said, without providing further detail.
Iraqi security officials said earlier on Thursday that three US soldiers had been killed and five others wounded when a suicide bomber targeted the American patrol in Baghdad's Dora district.
The blast killed at least 12 people and wounded 25 others at a popular Assyrian Christian market in the confessionally mixed Baghdad district of Dora.
The US military did not say if the attack they referred to in their statement as a roadside bomb was the same incident.
A total of 17 US soldiers have been killed in Iraq during May compared to 19 last month.
Since the US-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003 a total of 4,299 American troops have died, according to an AFP count based on the independent website icasualties.org.
Earlier this month 10 people were killed and 37 wounded when a pick-up truck blew up in a wholesale produce market in Dora, a district that until a year ago was one of the city's most dangerous areas.
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