- MOSUL (Sapa-AFP) -- A 12
year old Iraqi boy was killed and four other bystanders were seriously
wounded as United States troops clashed with insurgents in Iraq's main
northern city late on Wednesday killing four of them, police and medics
said.
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- Two US soldiers were also wounded in the twin clashes
in Mosul city centre, police said.
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- In the first exchange, insurgents threw hand grenades
and opened fire at a US Humvee in the Hay Masraf district and soldiers
returned fire killing one of them, said police captain Fathi Salah Zubeidi
who witnessed the attack.
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- In the second, insurgents attacked US troops with Kalashnikovs
and hand grenades in the Ghalat neighbourhood near the Tigris, before being
felled by US troops.
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- A boy in a BMW behind the Humvee that was attacked was
killed and four others were wounded, said police Captain Bassam Saleh Abdullah.
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- Doctor Ali Hamid Said at the city's Al-Radi hospital
said the four injured were in a serious condition.
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- The boy's body was taken to a US military hospital.
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- The US military had no immediate comment on the clashes.
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