Five US soldiers have been killed in a roadside bomb attack in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, the US military has said.
A patrol that was hit in the explosion then came under small arms fire before US and Iraqi forces secured the area, Reuters news agency reports.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki announced the start of a major offensive in Mosul on Friday.
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On Wednesday, an explosion at a block of flats in Mosul left 34 people dead and hundreds injured.
A day later, a local police chief and two officers were killed in an ambush as they toured the scene of the blast.
(BBC)
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