Summary: A US air strike killed eight family members, three of them
women, near Tikrit on Friday, police and witnesses said.
A US air strike killed eight family members, three of them women,
near Tikrit on Friday, police and witnesses said. The pre-dawn
helicopter raid occurred in the village of Al-Dawr where executed
president Saddam Saddam was captured by US forces in December 2003.
"Eight people -- five men and three women -- were killed by a
US air strike targeting their home. They are all members of the same
family," First Lieutenant Firaz al-Duri of Al-Dawr police told AFP.
One child survived but was wounded, he added.
Several Iraqi police and army officers from Tikrit, the capital of
Salaheddin province, confirmed the raid.
A doctor at Tikrit General Hospital, Imad al-Juburi, said the
bodies of eight people were brought in and the victims appeared to have
died of injuries consistent with an air strike.
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