3 U.S. troops killed hunting weapons cache

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• Friday's troop deaths bring the February death toll for U.S. troops to 37
• Attacks in Baghdad, Mosul and Musayyib kill 13 people, wound dozens
• Of those 13, four killed when car explodes in Baghdad commercial area
• In Mosul, gunmen and bombers target Iraqi police, soldiers

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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- An explosion killed three U.S. troops and wounded four others as the soldiers searched a building for a weapons cache in Diyala province in Iraq, the U.S. military announced Saturday.

The killings on Friday raise the February death toll for U.S. troops to 37.

Since it began in 2003, the war has taken the lives of 3,113 U.S. troops and seven Department of Defense civilians.

Army Gen. David Petraeus took over command of U.S. forces from Gen. George Casey in a ceremony Saturday in Baghdad. (Full story)

From late Friday through early Saturday, gunmen and bombers struck throughout Iraq, killing 13 people and wounding dozens, officials said.

In Karrada, a commercial district in central Baghdad, four civilians were killed and 10 more were wounded when suicide car bombers detonated on Saturday morning, an Interior Ministry official said.

Three more people were killed and five others were wounded when another car bomb exploded Saturday outside an auto mechanic's shop in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood of eastern Baghdad, a Baghdad police official said.

In an attack in the Shiite town of Musayyib, located in the Babil province south of Baghdad, three family members were killed and two more were wounded when gunmen opened fire on two homes Friday night, officials said.

In western Baghdad's Ghazaliya neighborhood, one person was killed and five were wounded when Shiite militiamen attacked Sunni houses, officials said.

And in Mosul, about 420 kilometers (260 miles) north of Baghdad, three attacks left an Iraqi police officer and an Iraqi soldier dead, and wounded at least 22 people, police said.

The police officer was killed when gunmen attacked his car in western Mosul on Saturday morning. Another police officer was wounded.

The Iraqi soldier was killed when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives near an Iraqi army patrol west of Mosul on Saturday. Three Iraqi soldiers and two civilians were wounded in the blast.

Meanwhile, 10 police officers and seven civilians were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded outside the governor's office in Nineveh province Friday night.

KBR truck driver killed at camp entrance

U.S. forces on Monday night shot and killed a civilian contract truck driver and wounded another near a northern Iraq airbase, Halliburton subsidiary KBR said on Saturday.

The workers were from KBR, KBR spokeswoman Melissa Norcross confirmed in an e-mail. Their names were not released.

She said the shootings occurred at "an entry control point just outside of Camp Anaconda in Balad, Iraq," and that the incident is under investigation.

The wounded man was treated and released.

A military comment was being sought.

"Our thoughts and prayers are with the family of the truck driver who was killed," Norcross wrote.

Norcross said that 98 KBR employees and subcontractors have died and more than 430 have been wounded in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait.

CNN's Mohammed Tawfeeq contributed to this report.

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