Iraq police chief says U.S. army gunned down family

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REUTERS

January 5, 2004

TIKRIT, Iraq – The police chief investigating the deaths of an Iraqi family gunned down in their car in northern Iraq said Monday he was convinced U.S. troops were responsible, although the army has denied involvement.

Tensions have been rising in Tikrit, the hometown of Saddam Hussein, since the bodies of the family were found on a nearby highway Saturday. Coalition forces said the bodies were of a man, a woman and a child.

General Mazhar Taha al-Ganaim, police chief of Salahaddin province, said four people were killed – two men, a woman and a nine-year-old boy.

A fifth man who survived and was taken to Tikrit hospital has told local soldiers the car was fired on by a U.S. Army convoy. Mazhar said he had interviewed other witnesses and was "100 percent" sure this was true.

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