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US raid kills 13 Iraqis, wounds 11 in south Baghdad (1st Lead)
Sep 28, 2007, 11:39 GMT
Baghdad - US helicopters shelled a residential building in Baghdad's southern al-Doura neighbourhood, killing 13 Iraqis including two women and four children, while four civilians were shot dead by gunmen in Diyala province, media reports said Friday.
Eleven other Iraqis were wounded in the US raid, Iraqi private al- Sharkiya TV reported, citing Iraqi police and medical sources.
The US military did not comment on the incident.
Meanwhile, four civilians were killed and nine others wounded when gunmen clad in Iraqi army uniforms opened fire on a cafe in the central Saadiya region of Diyala province, an official security source told independent Voices of Iraq news agency.
The gunmen managed to escape, the source added.
Saadiya is an ethnically mixed region of Arabs, Kurds and Turkomans.
Diyala province, 60 kilometres north of Baghdad, has been the target of recurrent attacks, especially by al-Qaeda terrorist network militants.
Joint Iraqi-US forces had launched the security operation named Operation Arrowhead Ripper in Diyala province on June 19 in a bid to rid Baquba and other cities from militants belonging to al-Qaeda.
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