At least Five Killed by US troops in Iraq
Pakistan Times Monitoring Desk

BAGHDAD (Iraq): US troops opened fire near a checkpoint after their convoy was hit by a roadside bomb, and a hospital official said Sunday that at least eight people were killed in the second mistaken American attack to have deadly results over the weekend.

South of Baghdad, seven Ukrainian soldiers and one from Kazakhstan were killed in an apparent accident at an ammunition dump.

US officials said they had no information about the shooting at the checkpoint, which occurred overnight Saturday.

Roadside Bomb

Interior Ministry spokesman Col. Adnan Abdul-Rahman said a U.S. convoy was hit by a roadside bomb near a police checkpoint in Yussifiyah, nine miles south of Baghdad, and troops opened fire, killing two police and three civilians.

Dr. Anmar Abdul-Hadi of the al-Yarmouk hospital said eight people were killed in the attack and 12 were wounded.●