One US soldier was killed and six were wounded when a convoy was attacked with rocket-propelled grenades in central Baghdad today, a US military spokesman said.
He said the convoy of several military vehicles came under attack in the al-Mansour area at about 6 a.m. andthe casualties were evacuted to a medical facility.
Witnesses said at least one US soldier was badlywounded in a separate attack about two hours later near Baghdad airport, when his military vehicle was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade.
The latest attacks on US occupying forces in Iraq came aday after two Iraqis died in violence in Baghdad, one in abombing near a police station and another, a policeman, when his patrol was fired on as it tried to help US forces who came under fire at a checkpoint.
More than 30 US soldiers have been killed in Iraq sincePresident George W. Bush declared major combat over on May 1st.