Five Iraqis killed in an American attack

Five Iraqis were killed and other 17 wounded in a raid carried out by American planes on Friday a residential areas in the southern part of Iraq.

An Iraqi military spokesman said that the US planes targeted the residential buildings in "the mechanic quarters" in al-Dewaneh city and this resulted in killing five persons and wounding other 17.

Iraqi sources however, said that 1483 Iraqis have been killed and other 1400 wounded in earlier air raids carried out earlier by British and American jets.