A soldier from Britain's Black Watch battle group has been killed and two others wounded in an incident in central Iraq, the Ministry of Defence said last night.
It is the fourth death suffered by the regiment since it arrived in the area south of Baghdad. They were sent from their base near Basra in southern Iraq to replace U.S. soldiers drafted in to take part in the storming of Falluja.
Three soldiers and their translator were killed last Thursday when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a vehicle checkpoint.
Two others, serious wounded in another suicide attack in their armoured personnel carrier, were flown out of the country for specialist treatment on Sunday.
The Black Watch's move north to the area dubbed the "triangle of death" from the relatively quiet southern zone around Basra was controversial in Britain where anti-war sentiment remains strong.