U.S. Soldier, Marine Die in Iraq Bombings

The U.S. military Thursday announced the deaths of a Marine and a soldier in separate bombings in Iraq.

The Marine was killed in a roadside bombing Wednesday night in the western city of Ramadi.

The soldier was killed by another roadside bomb near the city of Tikrit, north of Baghdad. Neither’s name was immediately released.

More than 40 U.S. soldiers have been killed this month, most of them in bombings.

U.S. troops searched homes and farmland south of Baiji, police said, in an area where four U.S. soldiers were killed Tuesday.

At least 1,840 members of the U.S. military have died since the Iraq war started in March 2003.

In attacks across Iraq, gunmen killed at least six people Thursday, including the parents of a 12-year-old girl who was wounded, police said.

The girl’s father was a pharmacist in Baghdad, police said. She was released to relatives, Dr. Muhannad Jawad said.

At least two Iraqi soldiers were killed in separate attacks.

Gunmen burst into the home of an intelligence official and killed him in Basra, about 275 miles southeast of Baghdad, police Capt. Mushtaq Kadhim said. A pedestrian was shot dead in the capital.