Four US soldiers killed in Iraq

BAGHDAD, May 4 (Reuters) Four US soldiers were killed and nine others were wounded in three separate incidents in Iraq on Thursday, the US military said today.

In the deadliest attack, one soldier was killed and six others were wounded when their vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb in eastern Baghdad, the US military said in a statement.

Another soldier was killed and three others were wounded when a roadside bomb hit their vehicle in western Baghdad in an attack in which an Iraqi translator also died.

In western Iraq, two soldiers were killed in combat in the province of Anbar.

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