Two Iraqi soldiers killed, US gunships set house ablaze

BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed two Iraqi soldiers and wounded five people, three of them soldiers, on Friday near a military convoy in the Baghdad Shiite neighbourhood of Kadhimiya, an interior ministry official said.
Iraqi forces called in air support after the car bomb attack, the US military said.
Two US gunships responded, striking a house with at least four rockets and setting it on fire, an AFP correspondent said. It appeared the house was in the Sunni Muslim Adhamiya neighborhood.
The US military did not say why the house was a target.
Iraqi forces came under mortar round fire in the area near the car bomb and US and Iraqi troops were involved in clashes around the Kadhimiya and Adhamiya neighbourhoods across the Tigris River.
A second bomb targeted a US convoy in southeast Baghdad about an hour later, the official said.
There were no immediate reports of casualties but a column of smoke could be seen rising over the area.

05/20/2005 13:14 GMT