U.S. Troops killed

A roadside bomb hit a U.S. convoy in southern Baghdad, killing one soldier and injuring six others. The U.S. military also reported that an American soldier died Wednesday night of injuries sustained in a vehicle accident near Kirkuk.

In other incidents, gunmen killed at least eight Iraqis in four separate attacks. In one incident, unidentified men in a speeding car wielding machine guns killed local police commander Col. Fadil Mahmoud Mohammed and his driver this morning near the city of Baquba north of Baghdad.