Baghdad, July 02: An Iraqi soldier has been killed and 10 civilians wounded when a roadside bomb exploded next to an Iraqi military patrol in central Baghdad.
According to police, the blast occurred in Baghdad’s Karrada neighborhood early on Thursday. Two soldiers were also among the injured.
The incident occurs two days after the withdrawal of US combat troops from urban areas.
On Tuesday, American troops handed control of towns and cities nationwide to the Iraqi forces, marking the first major step toward complete withdrawal from Iraq by the end of 2011.
The pullout was part of a landmark security agreement signed last year between Baghdad and Washington covering the fate of the some 133,000 US troops present in Iraq.
—–Agencies