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5 Marines, 6 Iraqis killed in attacks

AGENCIES, Baghdad
A soldier from a US task force was killed and another wounded in northern Iraq yesterday in a roadside bomb attack on a convoy that also killed an Iraqi civilian while four other US marines were killed on Saturday near the flashpoint city of Fallujah in accident, the US military said.
In a statement, it said the convoy then came under fire from a speeding vehicle. Troops fired back and killed the driver.
It said the incident took place between Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul.
"While the injured soldier was being treated following the explosion, a vehicle approached at a high rate of speed and fired on the convoy. The soldiers returned fire killing the driver," said the statement.
It did not give the dead soldier's nationality, but Taskforce Olympia is American. More than 650 US military personnel have been killed in combat in Iraq since the start of the war to oust Saddam Hussein last
year.
"Four marines assigned to 1st Marine Expeditionary Force died in Al Anbar Province on Saturday while conducting security and stability operations," a US military statement said.
A US military spokesman later said the attack was near Fallujah, west of Baghdad.
The latest casualties bring to 657 the number of US troops killed in action in Iraq since the start of the US-led war in March 2003, according
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to figures by the US Defence Department.
Meanwhile, five Iraqis were killed in a spate of attacks on Saturday and insurgents again targeted a gas pipeline near the northern oil city of Kirkuk, as Iraq's interim government confronted a growing hostage crisis.
A pipeline connecting the Kirkuk gas fields with the Beiji power plants to the west was attacked with a crude bomb that set a small section of pipeline on fire, said Ahmed al-Hassan, head of security at the Northern Gas Company.
Kirkuk, north of Baghdad, has been a theatre of tension and violence among it's Arab, Kurd, Turkmen and Christian communities.
The attack there came five days after another pipeline in the gas network was sabotaged.
North of Kirkuk, a member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and translator for the multinational forces was stabbed to death.
Earlier, unknown assailants opened fire at the offices of the Union of Farming Cooperatives, killing a guard, said police Major Burhan Taib.
The union groups Arab landowners and farmers from the agricultural plains of Al-Hawijah and Al-Riad southwest of Kirkuk.
Meanwhile, in the Sunni Muslim stronghold of Ramadi, west of Baghdad, US marines said they shot dead two members of an armed gang who attacked them on Saturday, while a hospital official reported that five Iraqis had been wounded.
"There was a clash at approximately 6:15 am today near a taxi stop in Ramadi between US marines and approximately seven enemy fighters dressed in black," said a marine spokesman.
"Those seven fired on the marines from the taxi stop. The marines returned fire, killing two of the attackers and seized the vehicle they used, which had a machine gun mounted on the back," he said. (Reuters/AFP)