BAGHDAD, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- Two U.S. soldiers were killed and four others wounded in two roadside bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital on Saturday, the U.S. military said on Sunday.

    A Soldier assigned to Multi-national Division - Baghdad was killed when an improvised explosive device detonated near their patrol in southeast Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement.

    The patrol was conducting "combat operations in order to search for suspected terrorists in the area" when a roadside bomb exploded near one of their vehicles, killing the soldier and wounding four others, the statement said.

    Another soldier assigned to the same Division was killed in southwest of Baghdad Saturday when a roadside bomb hit the patrol vehicles, the military said in another statement.

    The patrol was conducting a "combat supply mission in order to deliver necessary supplies to units in the area" when attack occurred, it added.

    The latest death brings the total death toll of U.S. military personnel in Iraq to more than 2,965 since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003, according to the Pentagon figures.