Five US Soldiers Killed in Iraq Violence 
Pakistan Times Wire Service

BAGHDAD: The Iraqi capital was reeling on Monday from devastating bombings which killed 41 people and exposed the limits of a month-old security sweep through Baghdad by Iraqi and US forces.

The US military also reported the deaths of five more US troops in Iraq, three of them in action and two in non-combat incidents.

One soldier was killed by a roadside bomb attack while fighting in support of an air assault on insurgent targets southwest of Baghdad, and another "died as a result of injuries sustained from an explosion" in northern Iraq, Sunday's statement said.

In the third incident, a soldier from Task Force Lightning, based in the northern city of Tikrit died "in a non-combated related incident, which is currently under investigation".

The deaths brought to 3,195 the US military's losses in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, according to an international news agency count based on Pentagon figures.●