Six British Troops were killed and eight wounded in two separate attacks near the city of Amarah, about 200kms north of Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, CNN reported in its website.

The first attack took place near the city of Al-Amarah, about 200 kilometers north of Iraq's second city of Basra Tuesday.

In the second incident in the same area, eight other troops were injured, one in an initial clash and seven other Quick Reaction Force troops, when their Royal Air Force Chinook helicopter came under fire in an attempted rescue. Three of the injured are in a serious condition.

The British deaths were the first since early May, when a soldier was killed in a traffic accident.