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BAGHDAD - Three US soldiers died in separate incidents in Baghdad, the US military reported on Tuesday.
One soldier was killed when his vehicle struck a roadside bomb in northeast Baghdad while a second was killed by small arms fire shortly thereafter in north-central Baghdad, both on Sunday.
US troops are in the midst of conducting operations to confiscate weapons and restore security to this area of Baghdad under the three month old Operation Together Forward.
On Monday, a soldier in the medical task force which provides health care in Iraq died of "non-battle related injuries", the statement from the US military said without elaborating.
The latest fatalities bring the number of US deaths since the March 2003 invasion to 2,682 according to an AFP count based on Pentagon figures.

09/19/2006 13:30 GMT