[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。
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" P5 {- D0 a/ a% G7 t- |1 C' 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.% w5 b6 i' S! t
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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。rs238848.rs.hosteurope.de3 ?& N8 Z$ T" c; }

, l. H5 g+ s3 E& m4 H! c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。  d  K& Y! |* z8 |* p

1 I" z, Q% Z1 S8 i! N# c人在德国 社区U.S. helicopter goes down after coming under fire south of Baghdad: Iraqi army officialrs238848.rs.hosteurope.de2 y5 o! L0 R; A, n0 E4 w
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BAGHDAD: 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.' T/ f5 |+ E0 ~* s. V" j+ I- o( q

+ Q/ I- u. z" _& n% trs238848.rs.hosteurope.deGunmen 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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# k. T; M# u0 ~% ?1 F& D6 _rs238848.rs.hosteurope.deThe 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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9 c5 t- l8 S5 R; b" QLatifiyah is part of the area dubbed the Triangle of Death because of frequent insurgent attacks.8 c% L/ I" |7 K6 }1 r4 n$ k

& q9 _  a+ W( o1 h" `8 ?" y$ UThe 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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, U# y; a7 q& \# n; ]With Thursday's incident, at least nine U.S. helicopters have crashed or been brought down by hostile fire this year in Iraq.