A roadside bomb struck a US military patrol in northern Iraq on Saturday, killing a US soldier and wounding four others, the military said in a statement.

The early morning attack took place in southwest of the town of Baiji, some 200 km north of Baghdad, the statement said.

The name of the killed soldier is being withheld pending notification of next of kin, the statement added.

Some 2,010 US soldiers have been killed in Iraq since the US- led invasion began in March 2003.

Source: Xinhua