A US soldier was killed and two others wounded late Sunday in Baquba, 66 kilometres northeast of Baghdad, a military official said Monday. A police station was attacked late Sunday in Baquba, leaving one US soldier wounded, said a police officer in the town. "A grenade was hurled at the police station at 10:30 pm and a US soldier was injured," said Mohammed Jawad. Baquba is home to both Sunni and Shiite Muslims, and has been a regular battleground between US troops and resistance fighters. ** US Soldiers Shoot Dead Two Iraqi Policemen*** US soldiers in Baghdad on Saturday shot dead an Iraqi policeman they 'mistook' for an attacker, killed another as he tried to surrender to them and beat a third, a survivor of the incident told AFP. The three Iraqi officers were firing from their unmarked car at a suspect vehicle they were chasing when the Americans opened fire on them in a western suburb of the capital, Sergeant Hamza Atiya Muhsen, who said he was driving the car, told AFP on Monday. Lieutenant Colonel Muayad Farhan, deputy head of Al-Yarmuk police station where the dead officers were based, confirmed that two of his officers had been shot by coalition forces. As the Al-Yarmuk deputy police chief spoke to AFP Monday, two US military police officers came to offer their condolences to him. They asked not to be named but said they believed the two officers had been shot by US troops after being mistaken for attackers. Sergeant Muhsen said one of his colleagues was shot as he sat in the back seat of their white Hyundai car, which is the same make and colour as many other Iraqi police vehicles but did not have the blue markings and police numbering. The third officer, who was uniformed, was shot as he got out from the front passenger seat and held his hands in the air, holding his coalition-issued yellow police badge and shouting "police, police," said Muhsen. "The second time he said it he was shot. He was hit in the right eye. He was hit by a machine gun that was firing at us right from the start of the incident," said Muhsen, who said the incident took place outside a cement factory on the Abu Gharib Road. Muhsen, who said he was in civilian clothes but wearing the large police armband and wearing the yellow police badge around his neck, said after the firing had stopped he got out of the car and held his hands up. "Three soldiers surrounded me. I got down on my knees, hands in the air, holding my badge. One of them kicked me in the back and I fell to the ground. Another one kicked me twice in the face. They put their boots on my head and pressed it into the ground. "I kept saying "police, police," I don't speak English but it's the same word in Arabic," said Muhsen, who said the beating lasted several minutes. **PHOTO CAPTION*** A U.S. Army soldier speaks with a comrade as they drive to a military hospital following a grenade attack in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad July 28, 2003. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini