Two Army Pilots Killed in Hard Helo Landing

BAGHDAD - Two US pilots were killed in northern Iraq Monday when their helicopter went down, Iraqi police and the US military said.

"Two US Army pilots were killed when a helicopter experienced a hard landing," in northern Iraq's Salah al-Din province, the US military said in a brief statement Monday morning.

The names of the pilots were being withheld, the military said, pending notification of their families.

Iraqi police said it was unclear what had caused the crash.

The latest deaths brought the number of US soldiers killed in Iraq to 4,361 since the US-led 2003 invasion, according to the website icasualties.org, which tallies casualties among coalition forces based on press reports and military statements.