The Associated Press
BAGHDAD: Three American soldiers were killed in a rocket attack in southern Iraq on Wednesday, bringing to 12 the number of soldiers who have been killed in Iraq over the past three days.
Lieutenant Patrick Evans of the U.S. Navy, a military spokesman, said the three soldiers were killed in an attack on Combat Outpost Adder near Nasiriya, about 320 kilometers, or 200 miles, southeast of Baghdad. Two other soldiers were wounded.
The attack came a day after an American soldier died when a roadside bomb hit his patrol near Diwaniya, 130 kilometers south of Baghdad.
Eight soldiers were also killed in a pair of bomb attacks on Monday, the heaviest single day of U.S. casualties since September.
Three of those soldiers died in a roadside bombing in Diyala, a violent province where Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia - the Sunni insurgent group that U.S. intelligence says is primarily made up of Iraqis but is foreign-led - has been active.
The five others were killed while on foot patrol in central Baghdad. A suicide bomber approached them and detonated his explosives vest. Three Americans and an Iraqi interpreter were wounded.
The latest killings mark a significant rise in deadly attacks against Americans; the overall U.S. military death toll in Iraq is nearing 4,000, according to an Associated Press count.
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