[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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& x% j0 A; O6 \ 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.) g2 g0 q9 i! q( Y: J

* c  k8 N) g* ~: W0 {/ A9 a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。1 A3 b- l: y" D+ [2 k/ C; l- m8 x

1 m- V6 A) M! r+ Brs238848.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。
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U.S. helicopter goes down after coming under fire south of Baghdad: Iraqi army official2 A( T, Q$ K! Z" J4 m$ h; N
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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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' F: r# P5 b- g, }0 J3 U& Y5 I/ `5 uGunmen 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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9 b' b* g* D2 W7 i& `2 U9 tThe 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* ^# e- V0 C2 z$ Z& P" N

4 `$ k8 ]# |$ a. ?- OLatifiyah is part of the area dubbed the Triangle of Death because of frequent insurgent attacks.) C; G: d1 X) m
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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.) e/ a8 h$ ?) z0 ^
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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.