[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。人在德国 社区4 O5 T! K- ]8 m

( H/ t2 }3 m+ H6 j* l人在德国 社区 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.人在德国 社区2 `, f4 [8 p) _
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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。www.csuchen.de6 w5 Z9 r3 C3 n, B

0 K0 D$ U  c: u& Jwww.csuchen.de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。
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U.S. helicopter goes down after coming under fire south of Baghdad: Iraqi army official3 t9 W; [  @. k- r0 l. h; v

+ I) h/ d( o% W# g0 h3 m: d7 swww.csuchen.deBAGHDAD: 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.+ I2 G2 z) @" A7 E0 p% @. r

2 Y8 i* F+ w) K4 K  W8 s& yGunmen 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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7 X/ d. c6 @. [  G: J# jThe 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./ T3 }$ m' x8 R4 S" S( G, D

8 f+ Y& f! @# ^7 [/ y" v8 BLatifiyah is part of the area dubbed the Triangle of Death because of frequent insurgent attacks.+ ^, |3 F' L8 _! q: `

% E$ a, O" f: k/ k8 B/ B. r, @5 x) N" SThe 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.
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  E3 m' _' E% |! b# YWith Thursday's incident, at least nine U.S. helicopters have crashed or been brought down by hostile fire this year in Iraq.