11 troops lost on Wednesday, 30 dead in 6 days

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military on Thursday confirmed 11 U.S. soldiers were killed this week in one of the worst days suffered by U.S. forces as a Washington panel said the training of Iraqi forces should quicken so troops can leave.

U.S. military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Garver said five soldiers were killed in a single roadside bomb blast in Kirkuk province on Wednesday. Details of the other six deaths on Wednesday were not immediately available.

The high daily toll brought to 30 the number of U.S. soldiers killed since the start of the month and underlined the human cost of the U.S. deployment in Iraq, where rampant violence kills scores of Iraqis every day.

The Sunni insurgency against the U.S. forces continues unabated. Some 2,920 U.S. soldiers have been killed since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. October was the deadliest month for U.S. troops in nearly two years, when 106 service members died.

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