Five Iraqis killed in Mosul gun fight

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al Jazeera

Friday 05 March 2004

Soldiers from the US-led occupation military force in Iraq have shot dead five Iraqis in a gun fight in Mosul.

A US military spokesman said on Friday morning that that soldiers sustained no injuries in the overnight armed confrontation.

It was unclear whether the troops had been American, the spokesman added.

"We are still trying to find out more details," he said, about the attack in the Iraqi city 370 kilometres (240 miles) north of Baghdad.

In the gun battle, "three were killed on the Iraqi side and no injuries on the coalition side," said the spokesman.

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Elsewhere in Iraq, at least three Iraqi civilians were killed In Baghdad on Thursday when a rocket slammed into a street near a telephone exchange.


Today's score = 8 Iraqi dead
0? US dead.