One of the burnt American military vehicle in Baqubah

BAGHDAD, Aug 2 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – The U.S. forces said one soldier was killed and three others injured in a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) north of Baghdad, while Al-Jazeera reported that several American soldiers were killed in another RPG attack on two U.S. armored vehicles in Baqubah.

"One 4th Division Infantry soldier was killed and three injured at approximately 10:30 pm (1830 GMT) on August 1 when their convoy came under an RPG attack south of Shumayat," a town between Balad and Tikrit around 100 kilometers north of Baghdad, Agence France-Presse (AFP) quoted a U.S. military spokesman as saying.

Quoting eyewitnesses, the Qatar-based channel said two U.S. armored vehicles were completely burnt down by an RPG attack in the northern Baghdad town of Baqubah.

The witnesses asserted that the attack left U.S. soldiers killed and injured.

They said that the U.S. troops responded with shelling houses in the town, leaving two Iraqi civilians killed.

Also on Friday, a U.S. soldier with the First Armored Division died in Baghdad from a gunshot wound received the day before, apparently by accident, U.S. Central Command said in a statement.

"The soldier was standing outside when a bullet, fired from a celebrating Iraqi, struck him," the statement said.

"The soldier was evacuated to the 28th Combat Support Hospital and subsequently died."

In a separate attack on Friday, an Iraqi woman was killed by U.S. soldiers who had come under fire in the Mansur district of Baghdad.

"An Iraqi woman was killed when U.S. soldiers fired in self-defense during an attack in Mansur," a U.S. army spokesman claimed.

An unknown attacker threw an explosive device at a convoy of six U.S. military vehicles from a bridge at 6:45 pm (1445 GMT).

"The woman was at the location when the explosion occured. Neighborhood residents brought the victim to the local hospital where she was declared dead," the spokesman said.

Since U.S. President George W. Bush declared an end to major combat in Iraq on May 1, the U.S. troops say 52 U.S. soldiers have been killed in "guerrilla attacks", while at least 56 have died in non-combat incidents.