BAGHDAD — In Hillah, residents said U.S. forces shot and seriously wounded a child Saturday after a bomb went off near their patrol.
The family of the wounded girl described what happened as they waited for a doctor to remove a bullet from her spine at a hospital.
The 6-year-old girl, Zainab Ahmed al-Janabi, was in the yard playing when a U.S. convoy rumbled down a nearby road, her father said.
There was an explosion, the familiar sound of an improvised explosive device, and then what neighbors and family said was “random” gunfire from the American soldiers.
Col. Jeffrey Sinclair, commander of the 172nd Infantry Brigade, which operates in Hillah, said the report was false, there had been another episode involving a child in the same area Thursday, and perhaps residents had confused the two.
The New York Times
