Five U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq on Wednesday in separate attacks, U.S. military said on Thursday.

One soldier was killed after he received gunshots when his unit came under attack by small arms fire southwest of Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement.

Another U.S. marine was announced dead after he was fatally wounded on Wednesday in combat near the western city of Fallujah, the military said in a separate statement.

Earlier, a third statement said three U.S. soldiers, assigned to the Multi-National Division-Baghdad, were killed on Wednesday when a roadside bomb hit their patrol south of Baghdad.

The latest deaths brought the death toll of U.S. military personnel in Iraq to more than 2,245 since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003.

Source: Xinhua