A US soldier was killed in a roadside bomb attack in northern Iraq, a US military spokesman said. In Tall Afar, located west of the city of Mosul in northern Iraq, the roadside bomb exploded, killing the soldier and injuring another. According to a statement issued Tuesday by the US military's Task Force Olympia, the soldiers were traveling in a convoy when the bomb went off at 5:15 p.m. Monday. Meanwhile, Iraq's trade minister said one of his top civil servants was shot dead outside his home last Wednesday in an apparent political assassination. Hussein Abdul Fattah, the trade ministry's deputy director general for administration, was shot dead as his car pulled out on the street, Ali Allawi on Tuesday told AFP. **25 US Soldiers Wounded in Kuwait ''Bus Accident''*** A bus carrying US soldiers rolled over near a Kuwaiti air base over the weekend, wounding 25 soldiers, four of them seriously, a military spokesman confirmed Tuesday. The Kuwaiti authorities are investigating the accident, which occurred Sunday afternoon close to the Ali Al Salem air base, Capt. Randall Baucom told The Associated Press. The bus had been leased from a local company, Baucom said. News of the accident surfaced on Tuesday after the Kuwaiti daily Al-Anba reported it. The four American troops who were seriously injured have been admitted to the Kuwait Armed Forces hospital. The other injured were treated at various U.S. camps in Kuwait, Baucom conveyed. **PHOTO CAPTION*** A U.S. soldier secures the area as his colleagues defuse a roadside bomb in the town of Mosul, some 390 km north of the capital Baghdad, February 16, 2004. (REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz)