Two US helicopters opened fire on a funeral in Sadr City in
eastern Baghdad on Friday, wounding two people, an Interior
Ministry official told Xinhua.
Residents in Sadr City attended a funeral for victims who were
killed in Thursday's deadliest bombings and some people fired into
the air when two US Apache helicopters flow over, the official said
on condition of anonymity.
The choppers fired into the crowd, wounding two people, the
official said, adding it seemed to be an accident, not clash.
Earlier in the day, Doha-based al-Jazeera English channel
reported that armed clashes erupted on Friday evening between US
forces and Shiite militiamen in Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in
eastern Baghdad.
On Thursday afternoon, at least 200 people were killed and more
than 250 others were injured in four coordinated bombings in Shiite
neighborhood of Sadr City.
It was the deadliest bombing attacks since the US-led invasion
in 2003.
(Xinhua News Agency November 25, 2006)
