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Deadly Baghdad airstrike

11:13 24/04/2008

A U.S. airstrike in Baghdad’s Sadr City has killed 18 people, according to residents of the slum. Hospital sources put the death toll at five killed and 22 wounded. The airstrike is the latest in weeks of fighting between Shi’ite militiamen and Iraqi and American forces.

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