US air strikes kill 14 people in Sadr City

By IRNA,

Baghdad : US air strikes on Sadr City on Saturday killed at least 14 people.


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Hospital officials said they had received 14 bodies and treated 25 wounded following air raids on residential areas.

It was not immediately clear if they were gunmen or civilians.

Two rockets hit al-Sadr hospital in the densely populated shanty town on Saturday, wounding 20 people, including women and children, and damaging a number of ambulances in the compound.

Iran has called on warring parties to sit at negotiating table to end hostility.

Humanitarian crisis is continuing in the city with children and women falling victims to the US military action five years after occupation.

It is not clear when the bloodshed will come to an end in Iraq, IRNA reporter in Baghdad said.

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