Bombs kill 3 Americans and 2 Iraqis

Witnesses reported there were two explosions.
KHALDIYAH, Iraq (AP) -- A roadside bomb exploded next to a passing U.S. military convoy west of Baghdad Tuesday followed by a second bomb when reinforcements arrived, witnesses said. Three American soldiers and two Iraqi civilians were killed.
A U.S. military spokeswoman said the casualties occurred in a "large explosion," but gave no other details.
He said three American soldiers and one Iraqi civilian were killed and several Iraqis were injured. Hospital staff, however, put the Iraqi death toll at two.
"One of our units was ambushed near Fallujah ... involving two coalition vehicles," the military spokesman said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Sunni triangle
Khaldiyah and Fallujah are part of the Sunni Triangle, the area in central Iraq where most of the anti-U.S. attacks by die-hard Saddam Hussein loyalists have taken place.
Witnesses, however, spoke of two explosions. The first one hit a humvee, and when more troops arrived at the scene to help, the second bomb went off, blasting another military vehicle.
"I saw more than three soldiers in the humvee on fire," said Emad Abd Salah, 30, who suffered injuries to his hands. He said he saw the soldier riding atop the humvee fall to the ground.
"The vehicle was lifted from the ground from the explosion," he said at the Ramadi Hospital. American troops fired randomly after the explosion "so I saw nothing," he said.
Iraqis killed
Abdul Hamid Marzouq, a nurse at the Ramadi Hospital where the casualties were brought, said two Iraqis were killed -- Hadi Abd Shehab, the director of agriculture of Khaldiyah, and Hamd Nayef, a taxi driver.
Nayef, who was driving by at the time of the explosion, was injured in the head and face, said Marzouq. He said three people were injured.