[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。3 T5 H' N& w/ A" O1 j

3 b9 }9 V) L+ [, ` 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.$ f$ }% E9 O0 Y

) x$ W; V6 n6 _: H2 @4 W  l9 Z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。
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  f9 C4 H) x& t3 ~% B$ m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。: F3 z3 K: ^! \; w) h5 f. R
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U.S. helicopter goes down after coming under fire south of Baghdad: Iraqi army official' w. u8 z" E9 o% z* m3 l  ^

: D! P& y! x6 z; ABAGHDAD: 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.' n; K7 K* ^, C' A) N! N
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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.www.csuchen.de+ R9 e! g* i4 e/ z$ s: i

% Q2 E8 [8 u: i- ^) K% S' R7 G2 pThe 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.
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Latifiyah is part of the area dubbed the Triangle of Death because of frequent insurgent attacks.1 w6 A1 n% [7 k2 {7 j
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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.
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* x( _# X: R" V9 Q人在德国 社区With Thursday's incident, at least nine U.S. helicopters have crashed or been brought down by hostile fire this year in Iraq.