Five American Servicemen Killed in Iraq

Five American servicemen were killed in Iraq in separate attacks, the U.S. military said Thursday, including three soldiers who died in a roadside bomb blast.

The soldiers were on patrol when the bomb exploded south of Baghdad. A fourth soldier died from wounds sustained in a small-arms fire attack in the capital's southwest, the military said. A U.S. Marine was fatally wounded during combat near the western city of Fallujah.

All five U.S. servicemen were killed Wednesday, the military said.

The deaths were the first among U.S. personnel since Jan. 28 and took the total of U.S. military fatalities to 2,247 since the war began in 2003, according to an Associated Press count.