BAGHDAD, May 4: Five more US soldiers have been killed in attacks in Baghdad and the restive western province of Anbar, the US military reported on Friday.

Five Iraqi policemen were also killed on Friday when a bomb detonated as they patrolled a Baghdad neighbourhood on the frontline of the Iraqi capital’s sectarian war, defence and security sources said.

One soldier was killed and two were wounded south of Baghdad on Friday when their patrol was hit by a roadside bomb.

Roadside bombs also claimed the lives of a soldier patrolling predominantly Shia east Baghdad on Thursday and another as in the mostly Sunni western half of the turbulent capital city.

Two soldiers were killed during combat operations in Anbar, also on Thursday.

The latest casualties brought the number of US servicemen to die in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion to 3,362, according to an AFP count based on Pentagon figures.