A car bomb blew up at a joint US and Iraqi forces patrol in eastern Fallujah on Wednesday, killing five Iraqi soldiers, a medical source said.

"We have received five bodies of Iraqi soldiers in the afternoon after a car bomb detonated at the joint patrol in the eastern entrance of Fallujah," the source in Fallujah Hospital told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

A US Humvee and an Iraqi military vehicle were damaged in the attack, the source added.

In another development, an Iraqi journalist was shot dead by Iraqi soldiers as he was driving his car near their patrol on a main road in Fallujah, local residents said.

Abdul-Qadir al-Badrani, a journalist working for the local Iraqiuon Independent News Agency, was killed and another person with him was wounded, they said.

Source: Xinhua