Six Iraqis killed in fight with US forces
Ramadi house is targeted
BAGHDAD -- US soldiers fought yesterday with suspected insurgents using a building as a safe house in Ramadi, killing one Iraqi man and five females, ranging in age from an infant to teenagers, the US military said.
The bloodshed occurred on a day that saw sectarian violence kill nine other Iraqis and wound about 50, police said. The bodies of 50 torture victims also were discovered, most of them in Baghdad and the city of Baqubah to the north, police said.
The battle in Ramadi began when a US patrol discovered a roadside bomb in the Hamaniyah section of the city, and two suspected insurgents fled to a house, where they took up positions on the roof, the military said.
As coalition forces removed the bomb, the militants fired on the soldiers, who fought back with machine guns and tanks, the statement said.
Afterward, coalition forces searched the house and found the six bodies, ranging in age from an infant to teenagers, the military said. Another female was wounded but refused treatment, it said.
A US Marine died Monday in another area of Anbar Province, the military said, raising to at least 2,881 the number of members of the American military who have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
