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01-28-2018, 11:16 AM
BAGHDAD: An air strike by the US-led coalition battling the Islamic State group hit Iraqi security personnel on Saturday, officials said, in an apparent mistake that killed eleven people.
The friendly fire incident drew swift criticism of the US military presence in Iraq from pro-Iranian figures in Baghdad.
"Eleven people -- a senior intelligence official, five policemen and a woman -- were killed by a US strike on the centre of Al-Baghdadi," a town in western Iraq, a provincial official said, asking not to be identified.
"It seems the strike was a mistake," the official said of the incident in the Euphrates Valley town, adjacent to the Ain al-Asad airbase 250 kilometres west of the capital.
Those killed were travelling in a convoy which had been deployed to support a dawn raid on suspected IS militants in the area. Despite the government?s declaration of victory over IS last month, the Jihadists remain active underground in several regions of Iraq, particularly along the Euphrates Valley and in the vast desert to its west.
The US-led strike destroyed most of the vehicles in the convoy and also wounded 20 people, including the town?s police chief, who was in a serious condition, the provincial official said.
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The friendly fire incident drew swift criticism of the US military presence in Iraq from pro-Iranian figures in Baghdad.
"Eleven people -- a senior intelligence official, five policemen and a woman -- were killed by a US strike on the centre of Al-Baghdadi," a town in western Iraq, a provincial official said, asking not to be identified.
"It seems the strike was a mistake," the official said of the incident in the Euphrates Valley town, adjacent to the Ain al-Asad airbase 250 kilometres west of the capital.
Those killed were travelling in a convoy which had been deployed to support a dawn raid on suspected IS militants in the area. Despite the government?s declaration of victory over IS last month, the Jihadists remain active underground in several regions of Iraq, particularly along the Euphrates Valley and in the vast desert to its west.
The US-led strike destroyed most of the vehicles in the convoy and also wounded 20 people, including the town?s police chief, who was in a serious condition, the provincial official said.
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