[国际新闻] 美军黑鹰直升机巴格达被击落

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驻伊美军一架「黑鹰」直升机4月5日在巴格达南部被武装人员击落坠毁，目前还没有人员伤亡报告。www.csuchen.de3 `3 d5 p& a% g. P( D) H5 I# v: p

- E: g. S- @2 P  Y2 q0 m# O: V0 T% y 据中国日报网站消息，伊拉克军方一名匿名官员透露说，这架直升机是当地时间5日早晨7时30分左右在巴格达以南约30公里的拉蒂菲耶遭到袭击，武装人员很明显使用了防空重型机枪。目前还没有伤亡报告，美军已经将现场封锁.
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据悉，拉蒂菲耶位于有「死亡三角区」之称的巴格达南部村镇地带，是逊尼派武装人员的一个据点。; ]: w0 k) p, m! r' c5 U
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美军直升机最近一次在巴格达失事发生于上个月1日，一架OH-58D「奇欧瓦」(KIOWA)侦察直升机在伊拉克北部「硬着陆」，两名飞行员受伤。此前一个星期，美军另一架「黑鹰」直升机在巴格达北部坠毁。# z3 l7 G1 {. H1 \" O

) ]9 T0 ^# A0 Y: F$ q% m, CU.S. helicopter goes down after coming under fire south of Baghdad: Iraqi army official
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* p' A9 K/ x% c/ mBAGHDAD: A U.S. helicopter went down after coming under fire Thursday in a Sunni militant stronghold south of Baghdad but there was no immediate word on casualties, an Iraqi army official said. The U.S. military said it was looking into the report.
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* K! a+ D: q6 O- u人在德国 社区Gunmen opened fire on a Black Hawk helicopter at about 7:30 a.m. as it flew over Latifiyah, 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of Baghdad, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.
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" ]& ~0 ]% w# m; P) L人在德国 社区The helicopter went down in a rural area and U.S. forces had cordoned off the site, the official said. He had no information on casualties but said the militants apparently were using anti-aircraft heavy machine gun.8 g, S; d0 M. _$ T3 c. M1 t
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Latifiyah is part of the area dubbed the Triangle of Death because of frequent insurgent attacks.
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; ~+ e2 R: f! w. n2 b3 }$ Z( m3 ^3 @The last helicopter incident in Iraq occurred on March 1, when an OH-58 Kiowa helicopter made a "hard landing" in northern Iraq leaving the two crew members wounded. A week earlier, ground fire forced the downing of a Black Hawk north of Baghdad.4 q6 E' v, u+ A; ~1 d; F7 t- _+ ?. g

$ [1 \# j( u9 v, [9 Y$ jWith Thursday's incident, at least nine U.S. helicopters have crashed or been brought down by hostile fire this year in Iraq.