[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。0 V: e% w/ v9 k

, _0 w" {! Q* V; L3 s0 g 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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# w/ O! Z( }5 P* p' r% |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.de) {. a0 Z: Y; s" O9 y+ u0 E3 q0 K
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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。
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  K$ w) V( e! W& S/ @5 q3 I6 E5 wU.S. helicopter goes down after coming under fire south of Baghdad: Iraqi army official
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6 k" @7 ?, R, ^* _, I. g; [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.人在德国 社区) @; Z* K% `( F# h& @5 B4 T

# Q% O, b6 Q7 c. Y% j/ w% rGunmen 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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# X" ^3 @& T7 X/ z% zThe 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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: R' |' x+ ^& j- v3 rLatifiyah is part of the area dubbed the Triangle of Death because of frequent insurgent attacks.+ G, k$ \% a: Y# }3 c1 X+ t  T9 Z

1 J- h$ `# W; o9 |! p8 VThe 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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, z+ Y/ z% q( Z% T  k; g1 A5 ~With Thursday's incident, at least nine U.S. helicopters have crashed or been brought down by hostile fire this year in Iraq.