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Baghdad Residents Accuse U.S. Troops of Randomly Firing on Family

HeadlineApr 17, 2007

In Baghdad, residents of the al-Amil district have accused U.S. forces of opening fire randomly on people during a raid late on Sunday. Four people from one family died. Two others were wounded. Eyewitnesses blamed U.S. troops.

Iraqi man: “People were sleeping when the U.S. forces raided the area. Shooting started, and people came out to see what happened. Two were killed in the shooting. A mother and her son came out, too, to see what happened, and they were also killed during the shooting. So we have four killed and two others wounded.”

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