Bomb attacks kill 9 Americans in Iraq

BAGHDAD, Wednesday (Reuters) Bomb blasts in Iraq have killed nine Americans, including a U.S. State Department security officer, since Monday, U.S. defence officials said on Tuesday.

A bomb blast in the northern city of Mosul killed Stephen Eric Sullivan, the state department assistant regional security officer, and three private security guards on Monday.

The other American deaths included: four soldiers killed in two separate bomb attacks in Ramadi on Monday, and a soldier in a police brigade who was killed by a bomb 75 miles (120 km) north of Baghdad on Tuesday.