U.S. soldier killed in Iraq identified

BAGHDAD, July 19 (UPI) -- A U.S. soldier guarding a bank died Saturday from wounds suffered in an ambush and the Pentagon identified another soldier killed earlier in the week.

The latest to die was killed in the Abu Ghreib district, the Pentagon's Central Command announced.

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The Pentagon also said that a soldier who died Friday at Fallujah, thrown from his vehicle he was driving when an explosive device underneath it was detonated, was Spc. Joel L. Bertoldie, a 20-year-old from Independence, Mo.

Bertoldie was assigned to Headquarters, Headquarters Company, 4-64 Armor Battalion, headquartered in Fort Stewart, Ga.

CNN reported four more soldiers from the 1st Armored Division were wounded Saturday when their vehicle hit what was called an improvised explosive device in Baghdad's al-Rashid neighborhood.

Ninety U.S. soldiers have died since the end of major combat operations, 34 from hostile fire.