Four US guards killed in bomb explosion in Basra

Four American security guards were killed in a bomb explosion while they were escorting American diplomats in Basra city, south Iraq, which is controlled by the British forces.

A British diplomatic source said that there were no diplomats among the dead, noting that the four killed men were in the car which was in the forefront of the procession.

Earlier on Wednesday, the American army admitted the killing of four of its soldiers during various military operations in Iraq. According to two separate statements by the army, two soldiers were killed and two others injured in a bomb explosion when their vehicle was running in the center of Baghdad.

One soldier was killed in a bomb explosion in the Tel-Afer border city with Syria, while one marine was killed when his vehicle was hit by a bomb as it was running in Ramadi, west of Baghdad.

By the killing of the four soldiers, the number of the American military men who were killed in Iraq increased to 1882 since the invasion of the American forces of this country in March 2003, according to the figures of the American defense department ( the Pentagon).