Bomb attack kills 6 US troops, Russian photographer

A Russian photographer has died along with six US troops in a bomb blast in Iraq, Russian Ambassador to Iraq Vladimir Chamov said yesterday.

"Around 4 pm on Sunday, a roadside bomb in Diyala province north of Baghdad struck a US armored vehicle carrying American troops and a photographer, Russian citizen Dmitry Chebotayev," Chamov told Russia's Vesti-24 television channel.

"Unfortunately, information that he was killed in the blast was confirmed this morning," he told the station by telephone.