Baghdad  - A roadside bomb struck an army patrol in Iraq's Mosul Wednesday, killing three soldiers and injuring 10 more people including two soldiers, police said.

The bomb was the latest of a series of deadly attacks which on Tuesday saw a car bomb in a Baghdad market kill 40 people and wound 55, after at least 28 people died Sunday in a bomb attack on a police recruitment centre.

On February 20, Iraqi security forces in Mosul began a push, dubbed "Operation New Hope," to arrest militants from al-Qaeda in Iraq. (dpa)