Mosul  - At least three US soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter were wounded in Iraq after men dressed in Iraqi police uniforms shot at them near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, the US military confirmed on Tuesday night.

The US military denied earlier conflicting reports of US soldiers killed in the attack.

A source in the Mosul police force had earlier said that two US soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter working with them had been fatally shot near a bridge just outside Mosul.

But later on Tuesday night, a spokesman for the Mulinational Forces in Iraq said four US soldiers had been wounded.

"Four US servicemen were wounded in the shooting that took place on Tuesday afternoon in western Mosul," spokesman Al-Muqdad Jibreel, told Baghdad's Voices of Iraq news agency by the phone.

Unknown gunmen killed an Iraqi interpreter during a meeting between US and Iraqi soldiers in the area, he said.

A statement from the US military released to reporters in Baghdad on Tuesday night, said that three US soldiers and a second Iraqi interpreter had been wounded at a police station near Mosul. The military said that an Iraqi interpreter had also been killed and it was investigating the incident.

A medic in the Mosul morgue, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, on Tuesday confirmed to Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that the body of an Iraqi interpreter working with the US military had arrived at the morgue. The circumstances of the interpreter's death were not clear. (dpa)