Iraqi killed, five wounded in clashes between British, Sadr forces

AMARA, Iraq (AFP) - An Iraqi was killed and five others were wounded in clashes between British forces and militiamen of radical Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr in the southeastern city of Amara, hospital sources said.



"The man was killed by a bullet in the chest fired by British soldiers and there are five other people lightly wounded," Ghazwan Majid, a doctor at Amara general hospital, told AFP.


The clashes occurred in four neighbourhoods -- Um Azayya, Al-Majidiya, Al-Hussein and Hutteen -- in the centre of the town, 370 kilometres (225 miles) southeast of the capital, an AFP correspondent said.


The two sides traded fire with assault rifles and anti-tank rockets, he said.

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