A US soldier was killed in an overnight attack in central Baghdad.
A US military spokeswoman said a patrol from the First Armored Division was attacked in al-Karradah neighborhood of Baghdad at 10.30 p.m. (7.30 p.m. Irish time) yesterday. She did not give further details on the ambush.
Four hours later, an explosive device blew up near a US patrol in another district of Baghdad, wounding a soldier and an Iraqi translator, she said.
The latest casualty brought to 199 the number of soldiers killed in Iraq by hostile fire since Washington declared major combat over on May 1st.
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The death was the first combat fatality suffered by US troops since the announcement on Sunday of the capture of ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.