BAGHDAD, Dec 8: A US soldier and a policeman were killed in separate attacks in Iraq on Monday as the continuing violence prompted dozens of South Korean contractors to pull out of the country and Bangladesh to close its embassy.

Brigadier Gen Mark Kimmitt, spokesman for the US Army in Iraq, said the soldier from the 101st Airborne Division was killed in a drive-by shooting in the northern city of Mosul.

“There was a drive-by shooting by four Iraqis. They shot and killed him,” Gen Kimmitt told a news conference.

In Baquba, 65 km north of Baghdad, a police bomb disposal expert was killed when a tank round planted on a busy street was detonated by remote control, a US military commander in the city said.

CAPTURED: US forces are questioning a man who was found with 1.9 million dollars near the town of Samarra, north of Baghdad, a spokesperson for the US 4th Infantry Division said in Tikrit on Monday.—Reuters/AFP