NationStates Jolt Archive

"Four Children Killed by Gunfire After Iraq Attack

Sun Apr25 ,05 2004 : 09AM ET

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four schoolchildren were killed by gunfire in Baghdad on Sunday, shortly after a roadside bomb ripped through a U.S. military vehicle, witnesses said. Some witnesses said the children, all aged around12 , were shot dead by U.S. troops who had opened fire randomly after the blast on Canal Street in eastern Baghdad. At least five other people were wounded.

The children had left their nearby school to look at the burning Humvee, the witnesses said. Children and some passersby were "celebrating" the attack near the vehicle when the deadly shots were fired.

The U.S. military had no immediate word on the incident.

"I saw a child lying on the street with a bullet hole in his neck and another in his side," said a driver who witnessed the incident. "He had his schoolbag on his back. Some 15 minutes later his relatives came and took his body away."

A nearby hospital confirmed receiving the bodies of four children with gunshot wounds.

The targeted Humvee was part of a military convoy driving through the street.

Two soldiers in the Humvee were evacuated from the scene by military medics, they said. "

"Four Children Killed by Gunfire After Iraq Attack

Sun Apr25 ,05 2004 : 09AM ET

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four schoolchildren were killed by gunfire in Baghdad on Sunday, shortly after a roadside bomb ripped through a U.S. military vehicle, witnesses said. Some witnesses said the children, all aged around12 , were shot dead by U.S. troops who had opened fire randomly after the blast on Canal Street in eastern Baghdad. At least five other people were wounded.

The children had left their nearby school to look at the burning Humvee, the witnesses said. Children and some passersby were "celebrating" the attack near the vehicle when the deadly shots were fired.

The U.S. military had no immediate word on the incident.

"I saw a child lying on the street with a bullet hole in his neck and another in his side," said a driver who witnessed the incident. "He had his schoolbag on his back. Some 15 minutes later his relatives came and took his body away."

A nearby hospital confirmed receiving the bodies of four children with gunshot wounds.

The targeted Humvee was part of a military convoy driving through the street.

Two soldiers in the Humvee were evacuated from the scene by military medics, they said. "

It is a sad fact that this is what war, and terrorism, also produces. The difference being if the firing of their weapons was unjustified the US will bring charges against those responsible. If they don't, there is no difference.

:shock:

"Four Children Killed by Gunfire After Iraq Attack

Sun Apr25 ,05 2004 : 09AM ET

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four schoolchildren were killed by gunfire in Baghdad on Sunday, shortly after a roadside bomb ripped through a U.S. military vehicle, witnesses said. Some witnesses said the children, all aged around12 , were shot dead by U.S. troops who had opened fire randomly after the blast on Canal Street in eastern Baghdad. At least five other people were wounded.

The children had left their nearby school to look at the burning Humvee, the witnesses said. Children and some passersby were "celebrating" the attack near the vehicle when the deadly shots were fired.

The U.S. military had no immediate word on the incident.

"I saw a child lying on the street with a bullet hole in his neck and another in his side," said a driver who witnessed the incident. "He had his schoolbag on his back. Some 15 minutes later his relatives came and took his body away."

A nearby hospital confirmed receiving the bodies of four children with gunshot wounds.

The targeted Humvee was part of a military convoy driving through the street.

Two soldiers in the Humvee were evacuated from the scene by military medics, they said. "

It is a sad fact that this is also what war, and terrorism, produces. The difference being if the firing of their weapons was unjustified the US will bring charges against those responsible. If they don't, there is no difference.

:shock:

But what these people WON'T tell you is that the children were the culprits of the bombing. They make it sound like we Americans went randomly around Iraq shooting everyone we found. Haha, shut up.

And if there was no reason, we can relate this story to the Boston Massacre

i shoot kids too, i dunno whats the big deal?