Angry soldier kills 2 US troops, wounds 6

An Iraqi soldier went on the rampage at a joint security station in northern Iraq on Wednesday, shooting dead two US soldiers and wounding six, the the US military said.

The US military said the soldier opened fire on the Americans at the station - one of many in which Iraqi and US troops operate side by side - in the city of Mosul.

"The soldiers were in the courtyard ... an Iraqi soldier entered and shot two soldiers, killing one, mortally wounding another, and then spraying the others," said US army spokeswoman for northern Iraq Major Peggy Kageleiry.