Six dead bodies were found on Baghdad's southern outskirts. They were blindfolded and showed signs of torture, police sources said. HIT - U.S. forces said four American troops were hurt by a car bomb and a suicide car bomb in Hit, in the Euphrates River valley, 150 km (90 miles) west of Baghdad. BAGHDAD - A bomb killed two Iraqi soldiers and wounded six others when it detonated next to their vehicle in Abu Ghraib, on the western outskirts of Baghdad, a hospital official said. Clashes erupted with insurgents after the attack but no further casualties were reported. MOSUL - An unmanned U.S. military surveillance drone crashed in Iraq's northern city of Mosul on Tuesday, the U.S military said. No casualties were reported and the military did not give a cause for the crash. BAGHDAD - Four Iraqi women were killed when gunmen attacked a minivan carrying Baghdad airport staff to work. An Interior Ministry source said three other women were injured. SAMAWA - The Japanese military said four mortars landed on its base in the southern Iraqi city of Samawa late on Monday. There were no casualties. NAJAF - Four mortar rounds landed on a U.S. military base just north of the Shi'ite holy city of Najaf on Monday evening, witnesses said. There were no immediate reports of casualties. --SP 2314 Local Time 2014 GMT
