Fighting between US forces and guerrillas killed two people and wounded another two in the turbulent Iraqi town of Falluja, witnesses said this morning.
Television footage showed the bodies of two men in hospital after the overnight clashes.
It showed one wounded man in a hospital bed and another with bandages on his neck and arm.
Several houses were damaged in the town, 50 km west of Baghdad. A burned-out pickup truck and a bus raked by shrapnel were parked near a wall pierced by rocket or shell impacts.
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Pools of blood stained the ground. The US military had no immediate word on the fighting.
Falluja has been a flashpoint for anti-American violence since US-led forces toppled Saddam Hussein nearly a year ago.