- (AFP) -- Two young Iraqi sisters have been shot and killed
by US troops near Baqubah, some 60km (35 miles) north of Baghdad, police
and family members said Friday.
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- American troops at Ibn Firnas airport, seven kilometres
(four miles) from Baquba, shot Fatima and Azra, 15 and 12, on Thursday
at midday as they were collecting wood from a field some 30m away, their
brother said.
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- "Azra died on the spot and my other sister later
died from her wounds," said 18-year-old Qusay.
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- Policeman Hussein Ali said US forces handed one of the
girls' bodies over to the police "arguing that she had a gun in her
possession."
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- Police searched the girls' home, "without finding
anything illegal," Ali added.
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- There was no immediate comment from the US military.
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