Three American soldiers have been killed in a small-arms fire attack in northern Iraq, the U.S. military said on Wednesday.A brief statement said the soldiers died Wednesday in Hawija, a restive Sunni Arab town about 150 miles north of Baghdad.
The soldiers' names are being withheld until their families are notified.
The deaths came as Iraqi villagers and soldiers unearthed at least 13 bodies from a shallow, dusty grave in farmland south of Baghdad. The U.S. military also said Wednesday it found another 10 bodies in a sewer shaft east of the capital.
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