The two latest deaths were to be added to the Pentagon's official toll of dead since US forces invaded Iraq over a year ago, a Pentagon official said.

The toll includes 408 deaths from hostile fire and 192 from causes unrelated to combat, ranging from traffic accidents to suicides.

Well over half the combat deaths -- 293 -- have been inflicted since May 1 when US President George W. Bush declared an end to major combat operations.

In the latest incidents, a soldier was killed and another wounded early Friday in a roadside bombing in Baghdad's Al-Mansur district and a marine was killed in the restive Al-Anbar province west of Baghdad, the US Central Command said.

The Pentagon meanwhile identified five soldiers killed Wednesday when their armored personnel carrier was hit by an improvised explosive device in Habbaniyah, Iraq.

The soldiers were assigned to the US Armys 1st Engineer Battalion, 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division in Fort Riley, Kansas.

They were identified as:

-- 1st Lieutenant Doyle M. Hufstedler, 25, of Abilene, Texas;

-- Specialist Sean R. Mitchell, 24, of Youngsville, Pennsylvania;

-- Specialist Michael G. Karr Jr., 23, of San Antonio, Texas;

-- Private First Class Cleston C. Raney, 20, of Rupert, Idaho;

-- Private Brandon L. Davis, 20, of Cumberland, Maryland.

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