Two US soldier among 6 killed in Iraq violence
'Pakistan Times' Wire Service

BAGHDAD: Six persons including two US soldiers were killed in separate incidents of firing and bomb blasts in Iraq.

At least 215 people have been killed in week-long fighting between Iraqi security forces and gunmen in the southern port city of Basra, said interior ministry on Monday.

Interior Ministery spokesman Major General Abdul Karim Khalaf said 215 people were killed, 155 wounded and 600 arrested in the fighting.

This had erupted after Iraqi forces launched a crackdown on militiamen in Basra on Tuesday.●