[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。2 \8 A/ h; }! j/ o* w2 G' i' x

) ?* ^) [/ C7 B& L7 `8 x1 zrs238848.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.rs238848.rs.hosteurope.de' c9 f4 G7 p, m2 d# u' O' K
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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。+ L. t2 k6 X7 K+ g" v, S1 K

+ p, y2 z" C" y6 Q2 q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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" H. E) j. Y3 s0 `* J( c8 [$ Q* yU.S. helicopter goes down after coming under fire south of Baghdad: Iraqi army official& `3 X4 m  V9 p* |

" c, _" M$ T1 x4 a4 F- ?5 J0 V$ iBAGHDAD: 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.4 m- ~4 X* ]8 p( H2 D

7 p. r5 u* p3 MGunmen 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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/ l( S' {+ h$ }# T- _人在德国 社区Latifiyah is part of the area dubbed the Triangle of Death because of frequent insurgent attacks.
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( c2 T1 ]2 T6 m1 A3 v! mrs238848.rs.hosteurope.deThe 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.
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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.