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Major firefight erupts outside of Fallujah
FALLUJAH, Iraq (AFP) - A major firefight erupted west of the flashpoint town of Fallujah with reports of several US troops wounded after an American convoy broke down, an AFP correspondent and witnesses revealed.
They said that gunfire and mortar fire was exchanged for more than an hour
Thursday in the town of Khaldiyah, 30 kilometers (19 miles) west of Fallujah,
after masked gunmen attacked the stalled convoy with rockets.
The US military said it had no immediate reports of a firefight in the
vicinity of Fallujah, a Sunni Muslim bastion 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of
Baghdad.
Witnesses reported seeing American soldiers severely wounded but there was no
official report of casualties.
The fighting broke out at 4:30 pm (1230 GMT) when two American transporters
and two other vehicles stopped in Khaldiyah after one of them broke down, an AFP
correspondent at the scene said.
Masked gunmen then fired three rockets at the convoy, setting one of the
vehicles ablaze. The US forces rushed in reinforcements and fought with the
assailants who hurled mortars.
The incident came a day after US troops shot dead one Iraqi policeman and
seriously wounded another when a bomb struck their convoy on the outskirts of
Fallujah, according to a senior Iraqi police commander. The
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