Two U.S. soldiers were killed in an suicide attack targeting a police recruitment center in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi on Thursday, the U.S. military said on Friday.

The two soldiers were assigned to the 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), the U.S. military said in a statement.

On Thursday, a suicide bomber blew himself up among a queue of police recruits in Ramadi, killing nearly 70 people, including the two marines, and wounding over 100 others, the military said.

The names of the killed soldiers were being withheld pending notification of next of kin, the statement added.

The latest deaths bring the total death toll of U.S. military personnel in Iraq to about 2,188 since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003.

Source: Xinhua