BAGHDAD, March 30 (KUNA) — A US soldier died of wounds he sustained from a bomb blast in northern Baghdad on Sunday, bringing to 35 number of American forces killed in March this year.

The US army said the soldier, fighting with the MNF-Baghdad division, suffered from serious wounds he sustained when a bomb exploded near the vehicle he was in.

With this death, the number of US forces killed in Iraq since March 2003 rose to 4,008.

Meanwhile, the US army said six Iraqi policemen were killed in an ambush in northern Baghdad.

It added in a statement terrorists set an ambush against the Iraqi police force killing six of them and destroying their patrolling vehicle.