BAGHDAD, July 3: Three Iraqis were killed and 10 US soldiers wounded in four separate incidents in Iraq on Thursday, but President George Bush remained defiant in the face of the upsurge in attacks which shows no sign of abating.
The top US administrator was reported to be seeking more troops to restore order in Iraq, while British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw met Kurdish political leaders duing his surprise visit to Baghdad.
The latest attacks on US convoys came in the capital and in Ramadi, 100 kilometres west of Baghdad.
A rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) struck a three-vehicle convoy on Haifa Street in the heart of Baghdad, and although there were no reports of US casualties, one Iraqi bystander died.
In Ramadi, witnesses said an RPG fired from a motorbike struck a two-vehicle convoy, wounding six soldiers.
In a separate shooting on the northern fringes of the capital in the early hours, a US soldier and a six-year-old boy were wounded in a shootout between United States forces and a gunman who was with the boy. The gunman was shot dead.
A US military spokesman said an incident in central Baghdad was an RPG attack on a three-vehicle convoy. “One vehicle was damaged,” Corporal Tod Pruden said.
But a US official, at the scene of the attack on Haifa Street, said that “according to preliminary reports, there are three people wounded”.—AFP
BAGHDAD, July 3: Three Iraqis were killed and 10 US soldiers wounded in four separate incidents in Iraq on Thursday, but President George Bush remained defiant in the face of the upsurge in attacks which shows no sign of abating.
