IRAQ - FIGHTING
US air strike hits Sadr city hospital
Saturday 03 May 2008
A hospital in Baghdad's Sadr City, a Shia stronghold, has been damaged in a US air strike, wounding at least five people, witnesses said.
Special Report Iraq: 5 years of warSaturday 03 May 2008
By AFPA hospital in the Iraqi capital's Sadr City, a Shiite militia stronghold, was damaged in a US air strike on Saturday, wounding around 20 people, medics and witnesses said.
A medic at the Al-Sadr hospital which was hit said women and children were among the 20 wounded in the strike, which a security official said took place at around 10:00 am (0700 GMT).
Witnesses said the target of the strike, in which US forces dropped several missiles, was a small house adjacent to Al-Sadr hospital and used as a rest area by Shiite pilgrims.
The impact of the strike damaged more than a dozen ambulances belonging to the hospital, one of the three main medical facilities in the district, and also shattered windows of the building, an AFP reporter at the scene said.
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