11 die as US force raids house in Iraq

By IRNA,

Baghdad : Eleven people died after Americans raided a house in the northern city of Mosul at dawn on Sunday.


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The Americans said that after they entered the house in pursuit of a known insurgent, his companions opened fire and the insurgent detonated his vest.

Three women and two children died during the raid.

Neighbors said they heard an explosion come from inside the house between 5 and 6 a.m.

They said the local morgue had received 11 bodies and that two children had survived, with at least one child taken to a hospital in Mosul on Sunday evening.

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