Insurgents Kill GI, 5 Iraqi Security Troops

Roadside bombs killed a U.S. soldier and three Iraqi national guard troops Monday, and officials said insurgents had blown up an oil pipeline near Kirkuk and killed two senior police officers in Baghdad.

The soldier was killed and three others were wounded when a bomb exploded near their patrol in northern Iraq, the U.S. military said. The blast occurred when the soldiers from Task Force Liberty were on a combat patrol near the town of Baqubah, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, the U.S. command said in a statement.

At least 1,461 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003.

The three Iraqi troops were killed by a bomb in Baqubah as their convoy passed, said Mudafar Juburi of the Diyala police station. Three other soldiers were wounded, he said.

Insurgents near Kirkuk attacked the Al Dibbis oil field belonging to the North Oil Co., Maj. Gen. Anwar Mohammed Amin said. The pipeline supplied oil for domestic use.

It will take workers at least three days to extinguish the blaze and repair the pipeline, Amin said. Insurgents regularly target Iraq’s oil infrastructure.

In Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad, an insurgent mortar attack killed a woman and a 2-year-old girl and injured seven others, said Dr. Alaa Din Mohammed of Samarra Hospital.

In Baghdad, gunmen firing from a car killed two high-ranking policemen Sunday night, an Interior Ministry official said.