[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。/ }: Y( x" T" a8 J6 G8 @

. p! e7 A1 I9 i! v# \4 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.4 ~: _) V) `9 A/ w2 z  g7 E; J) 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。人在德国 社区9 o6 W& o# _$ C( ~

) d0 X2 A5 M2 u) {rs238848.rs.hosteurope.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。rs238848.rs.hosteurope.de1 d5 _% E' w2 X- |9 G

( X) V  ^8 r+ y6 U" r- I& TU.S. helicopter goes down after coming under fire south of Baghdad: Iraqi army officialrs238848.rs.hosteurope.de  {( c5 r8 A6 d" ?
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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.6 T9 f& A' m& w7 c& J

, t/ C$ t- K7 F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.' `2 D0 D  l9 u6 I- V! h

) J8 @" ~0 }) c- KThe 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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( k9 a& S- y  S, qLatifiyah is part of the area dubbed the Triangle of Death because of frequent insurgent attacks.5 Q6 m; B& T* l3 Q2 Q8 d/ A

8 }! w* }+ {, Z1 L# x人在德国 社区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.& i/ F) V& V1 b' j

; A3 C2 L1 z6 j0 w+ ^With Thursday's incident, at least nine U.S. helicopters have crashed or been brought down by hostile fire this year in Iraq.