Three Americans, including a State Department worker, died following a roadside bombing attack that struck a convoy west of Baghdad, the U.S. military said Tuesday.

According to the AP, the explosion killed an American soldier, a State Department employee and a civilian contractor working for the Defense Department as their convoy travelled from the city of Fallujah to a nearby construction site on Monday, the military said. Two others were injured.

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