the bodies of four children
Four schoolchildren were killed by gunfire in Baghdad on Sunday, shortly after a roadside bomb ripped through a United States military vehicle, witnesses said.
Some witnesses said the children, all aged around 12, were shot dead by US troops who had opened fire randomly after the blast on Canal Street in eastern Baghdad. At least five other people were wounded.
The children had left their nearby school to look at the burning Humvee, the witnesses said. Children and some passersby were "celebrating" the attack near the vehicle when the deadly shots were fired.
The US military had no immediate word on the incident.
Reuters Apr.25.04
