Four US soldiers are reported to have been killed in central Iraq. It is thought that they were in two lightly armoured vehicles and hit by rocket propelled grenades.
Sky TV's reporter, who was travelling with the soldiers from the US Third Infantry Division, said the four reconnaissance scouts were ambushed while driving Humvee jeeps at the head of the column.
"Rocket-propelled grenades were fired, one at each Humvee, they killed both sets of occupants," he said.
Meanwhile, Iraqi forces lit trenches filled with oil around the capital Baghdad on Saturday in an apparent attempt to obscure visibility over the city, a target of air strikes by U.S. and British forces, Reuters said.
Reporters saw at least two dozen fires raging around Baghdad, sending thick black smoke into the sky. "We can smell smell burning oil in the city," one reporter said. (Albawaba.com)
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