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US air strike kills 13 in Baghdad |  Printable version | A US helicopter strike has killed 13 people and wounded eight others in Baghdad's crowded Shia slum of Sadr City, hospital sources said.
Reuters television pictures showed a US attack helicopter circling above bullet-riddled cars and a house that showed damage from shrapnel and fire.
US military officials did not immediately respond to queries about the incident.
An official at Sadr City Hospital said it had received 10 bodies, while an official at Imam Ali Hospital, said it had taken in three bodies.
Police put the death toll at 11 and said it included women and children.
An official in the office of Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said US aircraft had attacked Sadr City's Tareq neighborhood before dawn.
Hundreds of angry mourners chanted as they carried at least three coffins, draped in Iraqi flags, through Sadr City streets. Family members wept.
Baghdad police imposed a three-day vehicle curfew on Wednesday morning, ahead of an annual pilgrimage to a north Baghdad Shia shrine. | | Posted By: mk - news@wilayahnetwork.com | | Back |
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