http://www.deepikaglobal.com/latestnews.asp?ncode=24157Five Iraqi civilians killed in Ramadi clashes
RAMADI, Iraq, Jan 5 (Reuters) Five Iraqi civilians were killed and two wounded when they got caught up in clashes that erupted between insurgents and US troops in the restive city of Ramadi on Wednesday, witnesses and medical sources said.
They said a gunbattle broke out after rebels detonated a roadside bomb near a US military convoy in the city some 110 km west of Baghdad, and opened fire on the troops.
Reuters Television footage showed two civilian cars riddled with bullets, their windscreens shattered and blood staining the seats and doors.
Crowds of men could be seen lifting the corpses of two veiled women from one car. A dead man covered in a blanket, his head in a pool of blood, lay in the garden of a nearby house.
''A multinational forces convoy in the vicinity of Ramadi was attacked this morning,'' a US military spokesman in Baghdad said. He had no more details on the incident or casualties.