Aid Crates Reportedly Kill 7 Refugees in Iraq
Seven Iraqi refugees, including a pregnant woman, were killed Friday when relief crates dropped by Western planes fell on their tents along the Turkish border, camp supervisor Basri Tay said.
Tay, an Iraqi, runs a camp holding an estimated 50,000 refugees on a mountain plateau just inside Iraq. The casualties could not be confirmed independently.
Journalists returning from a visit to the camp said they saw at least four wooden crates that hit tents.
A U.S. spokesman at Incirlik Air Base, Col. Don Kirchoffner, said: “We know of no confirmed incidents. We have nobody on the ground. We hope it didn’t happen. If it did, we are truly sorry.”
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