A US soldier was killed and another wounded in a roadside bombing of their vehicle in Baghdad, the US-led coalition said yesterday.
The soldier who died in the attack at 10:30pm on Saturday has not been named.
The death brings to 782 the number of US soldiers who have been killed or died in accidents since the US-led invasion of Iraq in March last year.
Meanwhile, Shiite militiamen clashed with coalition troops in both central and southern Iraq yesterday as the month-old uprising led by radical cleric Moqtada Sadr showed no sign of abating while the US military came under new fire over the abuse of prisoners.
Three Iraqis were killed in an early morning rocket attack that targeted a British camp near the main southern city of Basra while two Iraqis were killed and 15 wounded in clashes in the central holy cities of Karbala and Najaf.
Twenty people were also wounded when a shell exploded in a market in Nasiriyah.
Dozens of people have been killed in clashes between Sadr's Mehdi Army militia and the US-led coalition since Friday.
Ground forces commander Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez Saturday demanded a swift end to the Sadr insurgency, with fewer than 50 days to go to the coalition's June 30 deadline for the handover of power.
Interim foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari said yesterday that the uprising was causing great "harm to the aims and aspiration of the Iraqi people."
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