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Six Iraqis, including a father and three of his children, were killed in Baghdad at the weekend by US troops who opened fire on them as they hurried home to beat the curfew, it was reported yesterday. The shootings took place in the Baghdad suburb of Slaykh on Friday, when the district was plunged into darkness by an explosion in a local transformer. Survivors said they were given no warning before the US troops opened fire, and that it was impossible to know where the checkpoints were as they were moved with no warning.
Anwaar Kawaz, 36, lost her husband and three of their four children. "We kept shouting, 'We're a family, don't shoot.' But no one listened. They kept shooting," she told the Associated Press. She said the family had been on the way home and were fired on at 9.15pm, well before the 11pm curfew. "There was no signal. We did not see anything but armoured cars," she said. "Our headlights were on. He [her husband] didn't have time to brake. He was shot in the forehead. I got out of the car to get help. I was shouting, 'Help me.' No one came."
Two other men were shot and killed in similar but separate incidents. A military spokesman in Baghdad had no comment. The US military keeps no tally of Iraqi civilian casualties, but according to iraqbodycount.org, a watchdog group that compiles figures from press reports, the civilian toll in Iraq is 6,000 to 7,000.
Last night an American soldier was killed and two were wounded by a bomb in Baquba, north-east of Baghdad. The attack brought the death toll among US troops in Iraq to 258, 170 of them in combat. The remaining 88 deaths have been due to accidents, suicides and illness.
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Six Iraqis, including a father and three of his children, were killed in Baghdad at the weekend by US troops who opened fire on them as they hurried home to beat the curfew, it was reported yesterday. The shootings took place in the Baghdad suburb of Slaykh on Friday, when the district was plunged into darkness by an explosion in a local transformer. Survivors said they were given no warning before the US troops opened fire, and that it was impossible to know where the checkpoints were as they were moved with no warning.
Anwaar Kawaz, 36, lost her husband and three of their four children. "We kept shouting, 'We're a family, don't shoot.' But no one listened. They kept shooting," she told the Associated Press. She said the family had been on the way home and were fired on at 9.15pm, well before the 11pm curfew. "There was no signal. We did not see anything but armoured cars," she said. "Our headlights were on. He [her husband] didn't have time to brake. He was shot in the forehead. I got out of the car to get help. I was shouting, 'Help me.' No one came."
Two other men were shot and killed in similar but separate incidents. A military spokesman in Baghdad had no comment. The US military keeps no tally of Iraqi civilian casualties, but according to iraqbodycount.org, a watchdog group that compiles figures from press reports, the civilian toll in Iraq is 6,000 to 7,000.
Last night an American soldier was killed and two were wounded by a bomb in Baquba, north-east of Baghdad. The attack brought the death toll among US troops in Iraq to 258, 170 of them in combat. The remaining 88 deaths have been due to accidents, suicides and illness.
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