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Iraqi child killed by US fire
Posted Mon, 29 Sep 2003

Hussein Dakhil Ahmad was killed by US soldiers, said Dr Jassem Abdullah Jiburi at Hawija hospital, 50 kilometres from the northern Iraqi city.

He said that 25-year-old Meaad Abdullah was hit in the heart and transferred to a hospital in Kirkuk.

The US army did not immediately confirm the report.

The casualties occured when around 500 protestors carrying portraits of ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein took to the streets of Hawija and began pelting US soldiers with stones, an AFP correspondent at the scene said.

The demonstrators called for US troops to pull out of Hawija, the holding of fresh local council elections as well as the release of more than 750 "political prisoners" they claim are being held by the US army, Jiburi said.

Meanwhile an Iraqi police officer told AFP that unidentified assailants fired four mortar rounds on Monday morning at a US position in the centre of Kirkuk, an Iraqi police station and an army rehabilitation centre.

Police Colonel Khattab Abdullah said the mortars apparently failed to hit their targets and caused no casualties or damage.

AFP