US Troops Fired at Its Column by Error Near Nasiriya

13:34 2003-03-27

US Troops Fired at Its Column by Error Near Nasiriya

US troops fired at its column on Thursday to the south of Nasiriya. There are killed and wounded marines. The Qatar TV channel, Al-Jazeera, reported this as urgent news.

The channel also reports that a group of foreign journalists who accompanied the US troops in the region was shelled by the Iraqi artillery.

Al-Jazeera reports that fierce battles are going on to the south of Nasiriya, to the south-east of an-Najaf and to the south of Basra.

A representative of the Iraqi command said that the republican guard inflicted heavy losses on the enemy in the first battle near the town of an-Najaf.

The TV channel also reports that several Iraqi tanks were destroyed from the air in Souk al-Kheir district, 20 km south-east of Najaf.

The US and British aviation bombed a residential district Abu al-Huseib north of Basra. There are victims among civilians.

© RIAN

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