Four Iraqis killed by roadside bomb

HILLA, Iraq, Oct 22 (AFP) - Four Iraqis were killed by a roadside bomb Thursday night on a road south of Baghdad, police and medics said Friday.
"Four people were killed when their car hit a roadside bomb as a US military convoy was passing by in the Latifiyah area," said police Sergeant Ali Maliky.
The director of the nearby Iskandariyah hospital, Dr Razzak Jabbar, confirmed that four dead Iraqis were brought in.
There was no immediate comment on the incident from US marines, which command the area.
The towns of Iskandariyah, Latifiyah and Mahmudiyah, traversed by two of Iraq's main north-south highways, is the scene of frequent roadside bombings against convoys, kidnappings and killings.
Marines and Iraqi forces launched a sweeping operation in the area in early October arresting about 225 suspects.
Meanwhile, two US soldiers and an Iraqi were wounded in a US-Iraqi operation against suspected insurgents near a mosque in the northern city of Mosul, said the US military.
"Multinational forces have secured the area around the Al-Nurain mosque, while Iraqi national guard soldiers have gone into the mosque searching for terrorists believed to have taken sanctuary inside," a statement said.
"No multinational forces have or will enter the mosque. The search is being conducted wholly by Iraqi national guard soldiers."
The military said insurgents fired small arms, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars at Iraqi and US forces.
And military officials in Copenhagen said three Danish soldiers were wounded Friday when two roadside bombs exploded next to their vehicles in separate incidents southwest of Basra. None of the injuries were life-threatening.
This was the first time Danish soldiers have been wounded in bombings since Copenhagen sent troops to Iraq in 2003.