Five US soldiers, an Iraqi policeman, and two Iraqi interpreters were fatally shot in separate incidents in Iraq on Tuesday, Iraqi police sources and the US military said, dpa reported.
A source in the Mosul police force, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, on Tuesday told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that two US soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter working with them had been fatally shot.
The source provided no further details, and the US military could not immediately confirm the deaths. However, a source in Mosul's morgue, also speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said that the body of an Iraqi translator who had been working with US forces arrived in the morgue on Tuesday.
Mosul police said that an Iraqi policeman had been fatally shot in a separate incident while on patrol to the west of the city. Mosul is 400 kilometres north of Baghdad.
Earlier on Tuesday, the US military confirmed the death of three US soldiers in a a separate incident in Diyala province, just north of Baghdad.
The military said it would not release the names of those killed until it had notified their families.
Tuesday's deaths brought the number of US soldiers killed in Iraq this month to 15, and to 4,252 since the US-led invasion of Iraq began in March 2003.
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