Four soldiers assigned to the 4th Brigade Combat Team / 1st Cavalry Division were killed by a roadside bomb in Northern Iraq, according to the U.S. Central Command.

The 4th BCT / 1st CAV is a Ft. Bliss unit.

Ft. Bliss is not commenting at this time, and there is no confirmation as to whether the soldiers were from Ft. Bliss or had been attached to the unit once it arrived in Iraq.

The attack occured Monday near Mosul during operations in Nineveh province. The area has recently seen an increase in violence. No other details have been released and the Department of Defense is not releasing the names of the soldiers until 24 hours after next of kin have been notified.

The 4th BCT / 1st CAV was formed in El Paso in 2005 and deployed from Ft. Bliss in October 2006 - two months earlier than originally scheduled.

Half of the 3,300 soldiers had previous experience in Iraq. Their deployment was scheduled to last one year.

There was sadness at Fort Bliss Tuesday night after U.S. Central Command reported that four soldiers assigned to a unit that's based at the post have been killed in Iraq.

"It can happen to me and it can happen to my fellow soldiers that I serve with," said Fort Bliss soldier Mario Lovato.

Lovato, like a lot of soldiers, said hearing about any soldier death is bad news.

"One of our soldiers in the army on your team getting killed, you feel for their family," said Tommy Foster, a soldier at Fort Bliss.

KFOX was with the 4th Brigade Combat Team when it began deploying to Iraq in late October. The unit left El Paso two months earlier than initially planned to help combat a new wave of violence. The soldiers who were killed on Monday were in an area of Northern Iraq that has recently seen an increase in attacks. Around the Post now, fellow soldiers say they feel for the families.

"They died fighting for their country and I'm sorry for their loss. That's all I could say," said Lovato.