Two suicide car bombers struck a joint U.S. and Iraqi military outpost in northern Baghdad, killing four Iraqi soldiers and wounding 11 U.S. troops, the U.S. military said on Thursday.
The attacks took place on Wednesday when the two suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices hit the outpost, a military statement said.
Four other Iraqi soldiers were also wounded in the attacks, it added.
The statement did not say where exactly the incident occurred, but said that eight of the U.S. wounded were transported to Camp Taji, some 20 km north of the capital. The remaining three U.S. and the four Iraqi wounded soldiers were evacuated to a medical facility.
It said that eight local Iraqis were detained for suspect of having information about the attacks.
Earlier on Wednesday, 14 U.S. soldiers were killed when their helicopter crashed in northern Iraq, the U.S. military said.
The military said in a statement that the 14 soldiers, assigned to Task Force Lightning, died when the Black Hawk helicopter they were riding went down in northern Iraq.
Source: Xinhua
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