Missile Explosion Kills 8, Iraq Says
Reuters
BAGHDAD — Eight Iraqi children were killed when a missile dropped during the 1991 Persian Gulf War exploded as they played soccer in a sports field, the official Iraqi news agency INA reported Friday.
The victims, ages 5 to 7 and including three brothers, were torn apart by the blast in the Safwan district of Basra province Thursday, it said.
Mourners at a funeral for the children Friday assailed the U.S. and Britain, whose planes patrol “no-fly†ones in Iraq, the agency said.
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