[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。5 P# O' t% n$ w% ~' a

+ F3 C, ]" C5 v# n' y9 N 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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6 j+ R2 I. d! u6 [) G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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% R4 ^. b8 g; c9 F# t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 official
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& _- t* t9 g4 X! c4 ]6 m# ?人在德国 社区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.- k* H7 P" G. Q1 J. k! i

  R6 I, o3 ~% d8 ?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.& R$ E& J7 `6 Q  Y4 T
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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.; Y6 q8 w* Q6 X7 ~$ z0 D( i
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Latifiyah is part of the area dubbed the Triangle of Death because of frequent insurgent attacks.. M' K0 v; `( P5 w

- y# c$ i; l3 v) f$ ^+ IThe 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., s1 Q* o) L4 Y$ M0 u1 W) h

! t' G& w5 m7 p) f& ?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.