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U.S. says strike in Iraq ‘likely’ killed four civilians
2015-11-21
The incident took place last March 13th

Four civilians, including possibly a child, were “likely” killed in a U.S. air strike against an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group checkpoint in Iraq in March, an investigation released Friday found.

It marks only the second such concession since the start of a coalition air campaign in Iraq and Syria - the U.S. military in November 2014 admitted accidentally killing two children during a strike in Syria.

The U.S. military, which for more than a year has led the coalition bombing ISIS extremists’ positions in the two countries, investigated the Iraq incident after a woman said her car had been destroyed with five civilians in it.

“The preponderance of the evidence gathered during the investigation indicates that the air (strike) likely resulted in the deaths of four non-combatants,” the U.S. military’s Central Command said in a statement.

“One of the non-combatants may have been a child.”

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