Thursday 03 February 2005, 14:03 Makka Time, 11:03 GMT
An Iraqi employee died and four of his collegues wounded in a gunbattle in Baquba, on Thursday.
Raid Rizuqi, on e of the wounded said that they were going to work on their car while fighters suddendly opened fire from another vehicle.
At the general hospital in Baquba they confirmed that a dead body arrived.
In al-Quaim city (western Baghdad) an unpecified number of US soldiers were killed and wounded due to a bomb placed in a US headquarters (a former house).
Il Romanaccio at 1:56 PM