US bombing kills more Falluja civiliansThursday 09 September 2004
US air strikes have killed at least 12 Iraqi civilians in the town of Falluja in a third successive night of bombing.
Speaking from the town's main hospital on Thursday, Dr Mushtaq Talib said three women and five children were killed and another 15 were injured.
The victims, from just three families, were taking shelter in a couple of houses that were completely destroyed during the third successive night of air strikes, locals said.
Families living in the northern Nuwab al-Dhubat quarter were particularly shaken after the attack after whole houses became holes in the ground.
Human costLocal journalists report that the areas attacked are not only crowded, but that no armed men were in the district at the time of the attack.
Khalid Abbas, a neighbour to one of the houses completely destroyed, told journalists: "We were sleeping on the roof because the electricity keeps going off at night. When the the explosion went off, the blast threw me back by at least five metres.
"First I thought the explosion was in my house but when I awoke from the shock I saw that the neighbours had been hit." Abbas said two women and 10 children had lived in the house next door.
"All the children next door used to fill the streets with noise. Today I hope they will be like birds in heaven," Abbas said. "I want to know why the Americans decided to bomb a family with children."
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