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BAGHDAD: Gun and bomb attacks killed three Iraqis and wounded 15 on Monday, security officials said, while the US military said two US soldiers had been killed, the first to die in Iraq this year.
A suicide car bomb exploded Monday morning outside a police intelligence office in Baquba north of the Iraqi capital, killing a man and wounding 15 other people, a security official and a doctor said.
The bombing targeted the office, located in a central market, at about 11:00 am, the security official said, adding that guards protecting the building and girls on a nearby school bus were among the wounded.
Just before the suicide bomber blew up the car, insurgents threw several hand grenades into the intelligence office.
The US military on Monday announced that two US soldiers have been killed in central Iraq.
“Two US service members were killed in central Iraq Sunday night while in support of Operation New Dawn,” a statement from the US military said.
Operation New Dawn is the name for US military activities in Iraq from September 1, 2010, after the declared end of combat operations.
“This was one incident resulting in the death of two US service members. These are the first deaths of any US service member in 2011,” a spokeswoman for the military said, without giving further details on how the two were killed, or to which branch of the military they belonged.
