US forces kill five Iraqi girls

Agence France-Presse

US forces fired tank rounds into a home in the restive Iraqi city of Ramadi overnight during a clash with insurgent gunmen and killed five young girls, a US military statement said. Two insurgents opened fire from the roof of a house on a US patrol disarming a roadside bomb, prompting the soldiers to reply with tank fire, the statement said. Following the pre-dawn barrage, US troops carried out "an extensive search of the house and found one male and five females, ages ranging from infant to teenaged, dead", it said...

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