Two American soldiers killed in Baghdad, one booby trapped car

The US army announced yesterday that two soldiers were killed while other five were injured as they were exposed to a missile attack to the south of Baghdad.

In Musil, sources in the Iraqi police said that a booby trapped car targeted one American military vehicle in al-Yarmouk quarters and this resulted in casualties in the lines of the American army.

News reports from Muslil said that the car was parked in one branch street before it blew up in a suicide attack and this resulted in damaging one of the American patrols, and bodies of the victims were spread at the site of the explosion.

The report said that the explosion was very large and caused a hole of two meters depth and four meter-diameter, adding that the Americans closed the region and the American army did not give a statement about the attack.

This attack, however, is considered the third of its kind within the past 24 hours as Baghdad witnessed yesterday two explosions that resulted in killing and injuring scores of Iraqis.

A booby trapped car went off near the ministry of justice and the police academy in Baghdad. A spokesman said it resulted in killing 17 Iraqis and one American soldier, while Iraqi medical sources said that the number of killed is 11 Iraqis. Other 8 were killed after one mortar shell fell near the site of the first explosion.

The group of the Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in a statement on the Internet claimed responsibility for the two attacks.