Four Iraqis were killed in a U.S. air strike in central Iraq while five American soldiers and an Iraqi civilian were wounded in a car bomb explosion north of Baghdad, reports said Tuesday. The five Task Force Danger soldiers and the civilian were traveling in a Humvee on Monday near Hawija, some 240 kilometers (150 miles) north of Baghdad, when the blast occurred, the U.S. military said. A suspected insurgent was detained at the site of the attack, the statement added. The injured were evacuated to Multinational forces medical facilities for treatment and are in stable condition, it said. Early Tuesday, U.S. aircraft bombed a target in the city of Hit, west of Baghdad, killing four people and injuring seven, said Hamdi Al-Alosi, a doctor in the local hospital. The attack caused damage to several cars and two houses, he said.
