[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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1 ?& L: m! m; B0 @rs238848.rs.hosteurope.de 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.- ^3 o! n2 R# A; j# Y

6 r" R5 R: i- d7 R: J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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/ w# ?. ?9 }3 ]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# X1 Q2 e0 B  Y

5 D4 B7 ^; t+ F% |, G/ N  C7 |U.S. helicopter goes down after coming under fire south of Baghdad: Iraqi army official/ f1 ~8 J6 K4 l/ ?% {, E
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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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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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" c* `! f( `+ z* K! H, T6 c3 P, }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.人在德国 社区" P7 C: |! r, d# i4 R; {

/ Y& R" c0 g. F6 |' }( x& GLatifiyah is part of the area dubbed the Triangle of Death because of frequent insurgent attacks." Z0 s- p9 a" E4 d0 I) B: D& z

& ?. D. I! `" D* ?$ x& [) O/ e' rThe 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.rs238848.rs.hosteurope.de* u- M& P5 x3 V. o' F$ ?

, g, ~6 [7 e' l  s: N4 H* [( W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.