One US soldier and two Iraqi children were killed in a roadside bomb blast in central Baghdad today, a US military spokesman said.
A US army spokesman for the 1st Armored Division, said the explosion in a busy shopping district also wounded 14 people.
They included five US soldiers, eight members of the Iraqi Civil Defence Corps and an Iraqi interpreter.
"A soldier from the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment and two Iraqi children standing nearby were killed when the IED (improvised explosive device) detonated as a convoy was passing," the spokesman said.
Meanwhile in a separate incident a US soldier was killed and three were wounded today when a roadside bomb was detonated as their convoy drove past near a town west of Baghdad, the US army said.
In a statement, it said the convoy was attacked northeast of the flashpoint town of Falluja, in the volatile "Sunni triangle" region where much of the resistance to occupying troops has been concentrated.
Today's attacks brings to 212 the number of US troops killed in action since Washington declared major combat over on May 1st.