BAGHDAD, Nov 3 (AFP) - Five US soldiers were killed in separate incidents
Wednesday in Iraq, the military said Thursday.

A soldier assigned to the Marine Expeditionary Force responsible for much of
western Iraq was killed "when his vehicle was attacked with an improvised
explosive device in Ramadi," the military said.

The military earlier reported that two US Marines were killed when their
Super Cobra attack helicopter crashed Wednesday on the outskirts of Ramadi,
located 100 kilometers (62 miles) west of Baghdad.

The US marines are conducting operations in the restive Sunni Arab Al-Anbar
province of western Iraq. Several US army units are attached to them.

In separate statements the military announced that a Task Force Baghdad
soldier was killed by a roadside bomb south of the capital, and a soldier
from the 3rd Infantry Division died of wounds he sustained when his patrol
came under grenade attack near Balad, north of the capital.

The deaths bring to at least 2,029 the number of US military personnel who
have died in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion, according to an AFP tally
based on Pentagon figures.

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