20 Civilians Killed, Houses leveled into Rubble in Sadr City

7 April 2008

Baghdad-At least 20 Iraqi civilians were killed and 31 others wounded in indiscriminate bombardment of Sadr City by the US helicopters and tanks on Sunday.

The US troops invaded Sadr City district of Baghdad in an operation they said to control neighborhoods used by militias to fire rockets and mortars into the nearby Green Zone.

Inhabitants of the city have taken refuge in mosques and their houses have levelled into rubble.

An American Stryker squadron involved through southern section of Sadr City.

American forces in Abraham tanks, Stryker and Bradley fighting vehicles rumbled to the scene and American helicopters are hitting the houses where the people are trapped.