The soldiers were off duty. There were 6 other soldiers on the bus that were wounded by the explosion.
The bomb was placed on the side of the road outside of Mosul.
There was one soldier on the bus that had served as a colonel in the Iraqi army while Saddam Hussein was ruling Iraq.
At an earlier time during the same day, there were 7 or more non military personnel that were killed. The US and the Iraqi military were performing a security operation close to Falluja which is on the west side of Baghdad.
Why the operation was done, no one is giving out the details. The US military is not releasing any information.
Over the last months there has been an increase of assaults. Most of the assaults are against the Iraqi soldiers and the police.
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