US strike kills eight in Iraq
Eight Iraqis were killed on Saturday, most of them security personnel, in a US air strike that apparently targeted them by mistake, a provincial official said.
Eight people a senior intelligence official, five policemen and a woman were killed by a US strike on the centre of Al-Baghdadi, a town in western Iraq, the official said, asking not to be identified.
It seems the strike was a mistake, the official said of the incident in the Euphrates Valley town, adjacent to the Ain al-Asad airbase 250 kilometers (160 miles) west of the capital. The dead were travelling in a convoy which had been deployed to support an operation against suspected IS.
-AFP, Baghdad
