'US air strike in Baghdad's Sadr City kills 1'

Baghdad, May 6: US forces raided the Shi'ite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad today, killing one person and wounding eight after American aircraft launched a strike on four homes, Iraqi police said.

The operation in Sadr City, a bastion of the Mehdi Army militia of anti-American Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, took place at around 3 am (0430 hrs IST, police said.

The US military had no immediate comment.

Witnesses said six people were wounded after US aircraft, apparently Apache helicopter gunships, opened fire on six homes, reducing one to a pile of rubble. Several cars were also damaged, television images showed.

US forces regularly carry out operations in Sadr City as part of a security crackdown in Baghdad in raids targeting Mehdi Army gunmen involved in kidnapping cells and sectarian killings.

REUTERS

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