U.S.-Led Air Attacks in Iraq Kill 4, Wound 5, Baghdad Says
U.S. and British warplanes bombed sites in southern Iraq on Sunday, killing four people and wounding five others, Iraq’s air-defense command said.
The U.S. Central Command in Florida said coalition aircraft struck three targets in southern Iraq. The planes--U.S. Air Force F-16s--fired precision-guided munitions at radar and communications sites.
The attacks were in response to Iraqi antiaircraft artillery fire at coalition planes patrolling the southern “no-fly” zone, Central Command said.
It said all aircraft returned safely to base.
The official Iraqi News Agency quoted an air-defense spokesman as saying, “Warplanes bombed savagely one of the service facilities in Abu al Khasib, Basra province, resulting in the death of one person and the injury of two [others].”
Iraq uses the term “service facility” to refer to water and electricity supplies.
The spokesman also said the aircraft attacked a farmer’s house in Qurnah, Basra, killing three people and injuring three.
U.S. and British planes patrol no-fly zones over northern and southern Iraq that were set up to protect rebels from Iraqi air attacks.
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