[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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0 r+ g% f5 m, Z0 ? 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.rs238848.rs.hosteurope.de" F  j( i5 ?6 Y2 p

* @1 l, P6 N! r3 K: A0 ?8 j# m人在德国 社区据悉，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。% y; |! E( S( n% C$ r# K7 c
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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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  A/ K  ^! R  C5 BU.S. helicopter goes down after coming under fire south of Baghdad: Iraqi army official
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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.
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5 Q6 C; k9 y) @8 k- A& E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.
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The 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.  ~% r6 V: p# K; ^2 h) J0 c6 m

$ \" B; U; b. k/ g, JThe 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.人在德国 社区- U1 R( V: \+ a0 F/ A: Y
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With Thursday's incident, at least nine U.S. helicopters have crashed or been brought down by hostile fire this year in Iraq.