BAGHDAD, Dec. 10 (Xinhuanet) -- A US soldier was killed and three others were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near their convoy in Iraq's northern city of Mosul on Wednesday, the US army said.

   The attack came hours after a US soldier was shot dead andanother injured at a petrol station in the major city, 400 km north of Baghdad.

   The latest deaths brought to 195 the number of US soldiers killed by hostile fire in Iraq since US President George W. Bush declared the major fighting over on May 1.  Enditem