US strike kills 5 in Baghdad

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http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_1595551,00.html

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Baghdad - Five people were killed and 46 wounded, including women and children, in US airstrikes on the Baghdad stronghold of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr early on Monday.

"We have received five dead, all men, and 46 wounded including nine children and 15 women," said Dr Kassem Saddam of the Imam Ali hospital.

For its part the US military said four suspected insurgents were killed in the attack.

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"We could not sleep all night from the airstrikes," said a resident of the Al-Orfali neighbourhood in the Sadr City district northeast of the centre. "There were powerful explosions all night long."