At least 5 dead in strike on Iraqi house-witnesses

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/GEO433830.htm

At least 5 dead in strike on Iraqi house-witnesses

RAMADI, Iraq, May 4 (Reuters) - At least five people were killed in the Iraqi city of Ramadi on Thursday in what witnesses and police said was a U.S. air strike on a house.

The U.S. military said it was not aware of any air strike on a house in Ramadi but was checking the reports.

One police official said up to 13 people may have been killed. Hospital officials said five people were killed and 15 wounded.

The western city of Ramadi is a stronghold of Sunni Muslim insurgents waging a campaign of bombings and shootings aimed at toppling the Shi'ite-led government and driving out U.S. forces.

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1. U.S. occupation air raid kills 13 Iraqi people near Ramadi city

http://www.almanar.com.lb/story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=649157

At least 13 Iraqi people were killed Thursday in an air assault by the US occupation forces in Iraq's restive city of Ramadi, medics said, just an hour after a suicide bomber killed nine people outside a Baghdad courthouse.

Ali al-Obeidi, a medic at the Ramadi hospital said "US planes bombed a house in the Aziziyah area of Ramadi city centre, killing 13 civilians wounding several others".

The US military confirmed it had conducted the assault but did not immediately give further information.

Meanwhile, the US military occupation announced the death of a soldier killed Wednesday in a non-combat incident.