Iraq Says 5 killed, 11 Injured in US-British Raids

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Iraq Says 5 killed, 11 Injured in US-British Raids

Five Iraqi civilians were killed and11 others injured when US and British warplanes bombed southern Iraq on Thursday, an Iraqi Air Defence Command spokesman said.

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Five Iraqi civilians were killed and11 others injured when US and British warplanes bombed southern Iraq on Thursday, an Iraqi Air Defence Command spokesman said.

At local time 9:40 a.m. (0540 GMT), US and British planes bombedcivilian and service facilities in An Nasiriyah, the main city of the southern province of Dhi Qar, killing five Iraqis and wounding 11 more, the spokesman told the official Iraqi News Agency (INA).

Iraq's air defenses fired at the planes and forced them back to their bases in Kuwait, the spokesman added.

Dhi Qar is within the so-called southern no-fly zone, parallel to another one in northern Iraq.

US and British planes have been patrolling the two no-fly zones since the 1991 Gulf War with a claimed aim of protecting the Kurds in the north and Shiite Muslims in the south from persecution of the Iraqi government.

Iraq does not recognize the air exclusion zones and has regularly opened fire at the Western planes enforcing the two no-fly zones.

Iraq said more than 1,400 Iraqis have been killed and over 1400 others injured by the US and British bombings since the end of the Gulf War.

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