Baghdad - At least six people were killed, including US soldiers, four were wounded and 15 detained in Iraqi violence, US officials and media reports said Saturday. In the city of al-Howeija, some 350 kilometres west of Baghdad, militants killed on Saturday a civilian, the Iraqi news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI) said.
Militants also wounded a member of the Awakening Council late Friday in al-Sakhra village on the main road between the cities of Mosul and Kirkuk.
The Awakening Council are local police squads located mainly in Sunni Iraqi provinces which fight the al-Qaeda terrorist network.
In Karbala, some 100 kilometres south of the Iraqi capital, 15 people were detained, including four members of the Mujahidin Khalq group, the Iranian opposition in Iraq, al-Arabiya news channel said.
A bomb attack and an explosion killed five US soldiers, the US military said early Saturday.
Four of the deaths took place north-west of Baghdad on Friday when the soldiers' vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb while on patrol, the US military said in a press statement.
The fifth soldier was killed in an explosion near his vehicle in At-Tamim northeast of Tikrit on Friday. The blast injured three soldiers.
