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Friday, June 30, 2000, updated at 14:16(GMT+8)
World  

One Killed in U.S., British Air Strikes Against Iraq

U.S. and British warplanes bombed targets in southern Iraq on Thursday morning, killing one woman and injuring another.

The hostile planes shelled Rumaillah region in the southern province of Basra and "led to the martyrdom of one woman and injury of another", the official Iraqi News Agency (INA) reported. The report did not say whether Iraqi ground forces confronted the planes.

Iraq claims the frequent air raids by the U.S. and British planes over the two so-called no-fly zones in northern and southern Iraq have killed nearly 300 people and injured nearly 1,000 others since December 1998, when the U.S. and Britain launched the Operation Desert Fox air strikes against Iraq.

The U.S.-led Western allies imposed no-fly zones over northern and southern Iraq after the 1991 Gulf War with a claimed aim to protect a Kurdish enclave in the north and Shiite Muslims in the south from possible attacks by Baghdad.




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U.S. and British warplanes bombed targets in southern Iraq on Thursday morning, killing one woman and injuring another.

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