Two Reported Killed in Allied Aircraft Strike
Allied warplanes attacked military installations in southern Iraq, the second such strike in two days. Iraq said two civilians were killed.
One person was also injured in the attacks on “civil and service installations,” the state-run Iraqi News Agency quoted a military spokesman as saying. It did not specify the attack site.
A U.S. military official said warplanes using precision-guided munitions had bombed two antiaircraft artillery sites in Shahban, 225 miles southeast of Baghdad.
A spokesman for the U.S.-British allied force said the strike was in response to threats against aircraft patrolling the southern “no-fly” zone.
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