Baghdad - Three Iraqis were killed, including a child, and several others were injured yesterday in US air raids on "farming villages" in the northern no-fly zone, an Iraqi military spokesman said as Baghdad reported a vital oil pipeline had also been hit.
"The crows have once again violated our airspace in the north where they released their hateful bombs against farming villages in the Ninevah province, killing three innocent civilians," he said, quoted by the official INA news agency.
In Washington, the Pentagon could not say if a US air attack hit a pumping station along a major oil pipeline stopping crude oil from flowing to Turkey, as alleged by Iraq.