Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Tuesday, April 01, 2003
US Warplane Bombed Buses Carrying Human Shields
Several people were wounded when a US warplane bombed two Iraqi buses carrying international volunteers, some of them American, who were operating as "human shields", Information Minister Mohammad Said al-Sahhaf said.
Several people were wounded when a US warplane bombed two Iraqi buses carrying international volunteers, some of them American, who were operating as "human shields", Information Minister Mohammad Said al-Sahhaf said.
A senior US commander in the war on Iraq said he was unable to confirm reports that a US warplane attacked a bus in weswtern Iraq carrying international volunteers acting as human shields.
"I am not aware of any reports of human shields, I cannot confirm that and have no information at all," Brigadier General Vincent Brooks told reporters here Tuesday at US Central Command's forward planning base.