Iraq: 5 school kids killed by convoy [View All]

Source: AP

BAGHDAD - Five school children were killed Tuesday after being struck by a car in the convoy of a top judicial official during a chaotic gunbattle with checkpoint guards, police and hospital officials said.

The children, ages 6 to 10, were hit by the car during an exchange of gunfire between the official's security team and Iraqi police who opened fire after the convoy failed to stop at a checkpoint in central Baghdad.

The police and hospital officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they feared reprisals, said the children were heading to school about 8 a.m. in the al-Salhiyah district near the Foreign Ministry compound.



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