BAGHDAD, July 20 (Xinhua) - Two more United States soldiers were killed and another injured in northern Iraq early on Sunday, according to the U.S. military in Baghdad.

　　The three soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division were attacked when their convoy came under rocket-prop elled grenade and small arms fire.

　　"Two soldiers were killed and one wounded," Corporal Todd Pruden said, adding "their unit was ambushed with rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire near Tall Afar, west of Mosul," in northern Iraq.

　　The soldiers were evacuated to a military hospital but two died of their wounds, Pruden further confirmed.

　　U.S. troops in Iraq have come under increasing attacks in recent weeks. The Sunday deaths bring to 151 the number of American soldiers killed in action since March 20, the start of the U.S. war on Iraq. End