BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The U.S. government is not conducting an official investigation into a shooting in Baghdad involving a private security contractor hired by the U.S. State Department, U.S. officials said.
Instead, the United States will rely on the private company -- DynCorp International Inc. -- and Iraqi government to probe the weekend shooting, officials said.
The Iraqi Interior Ministry, the agency investigating the shooting, said that an unarmed Iraqi driver died when a security guard fired on his vehicle as it came near a U.S. convoy Saturday in northern Baghdad.
U.S. Embassy spokeswoman Mirembe Nantongo said DynCorp informed the embassy about the incident soon after it happened Saturday.
"According to DynCorp's report, the private vehicle moved in on the convoy and PSD [private security detail] members used nonlethal means to warn the driver of the vehicle to stop," Nantongo said. "When the driver continued to approach the convoy, a PSD member discharged his weapon to disable the vehicle. There are conflicting accounts as to whether anyone was injured or killed."
The shooting came less than two months after the September 16 incident involving a Blackwater security team in which 17 Iraqis were killed.
After the Blackwater incident, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pledged to tighten oversight of State Department security details.
But the DynCorp security contract does not fall under the department's diplomatic security program, so the embassy's Regional Security Office would not officially investigate the new shooting, a spokesman said.
Nantongo said DynCorp was working directly with the Iraqi Interior Ministry on the investigation, and she referred further questions to that company's spokesman. DynCorp has not responded to CNN's request for information.
DynCorp's security team was on a mission for the State Department's Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, or INL, when the shooting happened, said Philip T. Reeker, the U.S. Embassy's counselor for public affairs.
The INL is a State Department bureau and the DynCorp security detail is part of a State Department contract, but it is not under the embassy's diplomatic security umbrella, Reeker said. Because of this distinction, it does not fall under the new rules and procedures Rice ordered last month requiring video cameras and State Department agents in every convoy.
Reeker said the embassy is in close touch with Dyncorp, the Iraqi Interior Ministry and the INL "to review Saturday's incident."
He said the State Department, U.S. Defense Department and the Iraqi government are reviewing procedures for all private security contractors.
When U.S. officials met with Iraqi Interior Ministry officials over the weekend to discuss private security contractors, the Iraqis did not mention the DynCorp shooting, according to sources close to the U.S. officials.
An Interior Ministry spokesman said DynCorp has been cooperative with the Iraqi investigation.
Meanwhile, an Iraqi army commander and two Iraqi soldiers were killed in roadside bombings in northern Iraq, authorities said Tuesday.
Samarra police said Col. Samir Atrous was killed Monday evening when a roadside bomb detonated near his convoy in Samarra in Salaheddin province. Two other soldiers were wounded.
At least two Iraqi soldiers were killed and two others wounded when a roadside bomb detonated near their convoy west of Baquba on Tuesday morning, police said. Baquba, north of Baghdad, is the capital of Diyala province.
A woman and a child died in a blaze that occurred Tuesday during a firefight between U.S.-led coalition troops and insurgents in northern Iraq, the U.S. military said.
The firefight occurred in Mosul, when troops hunting al Qaeda in Iraq militants conducted a raid looking for "an alleged terrorist leader in the city." One insurgent was killed and another detained in the fighting.
Shooting between troops and militants led to a fire in the building's courtyard that spread to a kitchen, the U.S. military said.
"After the fire was out, the ground force entered the building and found that one terrorist had been killed during the engagement. Upstairs, they found one woman had been killed and one child was injured as a result of the fire.
"The child received medical care on site but later died while being transported to a military medical facility," a military statement said.
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"Al Qaeda continues to conduct terrorist activities that place innocent civilians, including women and children, at risk," said Maj. Winfield Danielson, spokesman for Multi-National Forces-Iraq, the formal name for the U.S.-led forces.
In other raids, four people were arrested in an operation southeast of Baghdad and nine others south of Baiji.
