Iraqi Policeman, Kids Among Latest Victims

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BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -

A roadside bomb struck a car being driven by a police colonel in northern Iraq on Sunday, killing him and his two sons as well as two young girls nearby, and insurgents killed more than 15 other Iraqis in shootings, bombings and suicide attacks.

Five U.S. soldiers were wounded in three bombings in the capital. The attacks came after a week in which 23 U.S. troops were reported dead, raising to 1,996 the number of military personnel killed since the war began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press Count.

Also Sunday, the U.S. military confirmed that insurgents killed four American contract workers and wounded two last month when their U.S.-escorted convoy got lost in a town north of Baghdad. The command did not say why the deaths had not been reported earlier.

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