TIKRIT, Iraq, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- An Iraqi insurgent shot dead a U.S. soldier and wounded another at a town in Salahudin province on Friday, a provincial police source said.

    "Osama Hashim, a young man fetched his AK-47 assault rifle from his house and opened fire in the afternoon on U.S. soldiers who dismounted their patrol's vehicles in front of his house in the town of Baiji, some 200 km north of Baghdad," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

    The U.S. soldiers fired back and killed Hashim before they stormed his house and detained his brother inside, the source said.

    The reason behind the incident is unknown yet, the source added.

    A U.S. military statement confirmed the incident, but said that one of its soldiers has been injured and an Iraqi is dead after shooting incident in Baiji.

    The statement also said that U.S. soldiers detained another Iraqi after the attack by a young man who opened fire on a U.S. foot patrol.

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