Three foreign security contractors were killed today when their convoy was hit by a roadside bomb just outside Baghdad, witnesses said.
Two more foreigners were wounded in the blast, on the main highway southeast of the capital, near the town of Suwaiyra.
The British Foreign Office and its embassy spokesman in Baghdad confirmed three people died and two, including a Briton, were wounded in an attack on private contractors in the area.
A spokeswoman for the Foreign Office said those killed were not British but declined to give their nationality.
In addition, she said that two British contractors had been injured in an incident in Basra yesterday.
The spokeswoman said a British military spokesman had been wrong to say that two British contractors had been killed when a roadside bomb hit their convoy on Saturday near the southern oil city of Basra.