Judge Assassinated in Baghdad as more US Soldiers Killed

Judge Qais Hashim Shammari was killed with his son in a roadside ambush, the sources said on Tuesday.

US soldiers killed

Meanwhile, six US soldiers were killed in two separate incidents around Baghdad.

A US soldier was killed in a bomb blast in Baghdad on Monday, the US army said in a statement on Tuesday.

"A Task Force Baghdad Soldier died of wounds at approximately 7pm (1600 GMT) on 24 January. The soldier sustained the injuries when a patrol was attacked with an improvised explosive device in western Baghdad," the military said.

Also on Monday, five 1st Infantry Division soldiers died and two were injured in a vehicle accident near Khan Bani Saad, north of Baghdad, a US military statement said on Tuesday. One of the wounded was in a serious condition.

The deaths raise the number of US soldiers killed in Iraq to 1374 since the March 2003 invasion, 296 of them in non-combat incidents, according to the latest figures from the Pentagon.