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US military says 6 militants killed in airstrike, mortar on minibus kills at least 5

(21 Jul 2007) Husseiniyah neighbourhood, Baghdad - Airstrike site 1. Exterior of Imam Ali hospital 2. Sign reading: "Imam Ali hospital" 3. Wounded woman and child in the hospital 4. Wounded child 5. Wounded woman with blood on her face 6. Various of wounded women waiting to be treated 7. Police vehicle near morgue 8. Various of workers taking bodies from vehicle to the morgue 9. Bodies inside morgue 10. Various of women weeping 11. Police car and ambulance next to morgue Eastern Baghdad - site where a mortar landed on a minibus 12. People looking at the damaged road where a mortar landed near a minibus 13. Various of damaged road 14. Damaged mini bus been towed away 15. Sign reading: "Al Shaheed al Sader Hospital" 16. Man carrying his wounded daughter inside hospital 17. Woman on stretcher been taken to hospital, police helping 18. Various of wounded in hospital 17. Policeman putting a child inside ambulance 18. Ambulance leaving STORYLINE: The American military said on Saturday that six militants were killed in an airstrike in a Shiite stronghold in northeastern Baghdad, but Iraqi officials and relatives of the victims claimed that 18 civilians died in the attack. Loyalists of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose Mahdi Army militia operates openly in the Husseiniyah area that was targeted, condemned the airstrikes. The airstrike began after American forces came under small-arms fire from a structure near the Husseiniyah area on Baghdad's outskirts just before midnight, the military said, adding that three of the gunmen fled into another building. Attack aircraft dropped a bomb that destroyed that house, setting off at least seven secondary explosions believed caused by explosives and munitions stored inside the building, according to the military statement. Iraqi police inspected the site and reported six militants killed and five wounded, it said. The military account contradicted reports from Iraqi police and hospital officials, who said 18 civilians had been killed and 21 wounded in a 2 a.m. attack in Husseiniyah, an area in which Shiite militias operate openly near the road leading to volatile Diyala province. AP Television showed wounded women and children lying in hospital beds, and white pickup trucks carrying at least 11 bodies wrapped in blankets to the morgue. Also on Saturday morning, a mortar landed near a minibus in Baghdad killing at least 5 civilians and injuring 11 other people, police said. The attack took place at al Al Baladiyat-al Fidhiliya intersection in the eastern part of the Iraqi capital. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...