Five American soldiers were killed in central Iraq on Monday

Five American soldiers were killed in central Iraq on Monday, the US military said in a statement.
  
"Five US service members were killed Monday in central Iraq," the statement said, without giving further details. An interior ministry official and an Iraqi police officer said five rockets struck the US's sprawling Camp Victory base on Baghdad's outskirts, but Captain Dan Churchill, a US military spokesman, declined to give details on how the occupation soldiers died.
  
Monday's deaths bring to 4,459 the number of American soldiers to die in Iraq since the US-led invasion to oust Saddam Hussein in 2003, according to an AFP tally based on independent website www.icasualties.org.