BAGHDAD, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) -- Three more U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq in the past two days, the U.S. military said on Monday.

    One U.S. soldier was killed in a bombing attack in Baghdad on Monday, while the other two died from wounds sustained during fighting on Sunday, the military said in a statement.

    According to the military, a roadside bomb exploded near amounted patrol in a southern neighborhood of Baghdad on Monday, killing one soldier and wounding two others.

    On Sunday, one Marine and a soldier were killed in combat in Anbar province, heartland of the Sunni insurgency which is the most dangerous region in Iraq.

    Earlier on Saturday, three U.S. soldiers were also killed in a roadside bombing in eastern Baghdad.

    The three soldiers from the 89th Military Police Brigade were killed and another one wounded on Saturday when their vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device in eastern Baghdad, the military statement said.

    Media reports said that at least 86 U.S. military personnel died in Iraq in December now.

    The latest deaths bring the number of U.S. fatalities in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion to 2,971, according to media count based on Pentagon figures.