BAGHDAD (AFP) — Nine US soldiers have been killed in Iraq, including seven in a vehicle accident in western Baghdad on Monday, the military said.
Eleven other soldiers were wounded in the accident, while two detainees who were being transported by the soldiers were also killed, the military said, adding a third detainee was wounded.
"The cause of the accident is under investigation," the military said without elaborating.
Another soldier died in an accident when his vehicle overturned on Monday east of Baghdad, the military said in a separate statement.
Two other soldiers were wounded in that accident.
The military also announced the death of another soldier from wounds sustained when insurgents fired a rocket at his patrol in the northern Iraqi province of Kirkuk.
The soldier died on Sunday. Another soldier was wounded in the attack, the military said.
The latest fatality took the military's losses in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion to 3,760, according to an AFP count based on Pentagon figures.
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