British soldiers kill two

British soldiers responding to a fire in a vegetable market yesterday wounded a 7-year-old boy and killed two others during violence that left several dead in Iraq, authorities said. Gunmen started the fire around in south Amarah, 290km southeast of Baghdad, to lure in coalition forces, Police Captain Hussein Karim said.

Elsewhere, a roadside bomb struck an Iraqi police car in north Baghdad, killing one officer, and drive-by gunmen fired on a civilian car, killing the driver.