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British Helicopter Crashes in Southern Iraq, 4 Dead
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http://enews.voanews.com/t?ctl=121A438:3919ACA Police say
helicopter went down in residential area of Basra after apparently
being hit by rocket or missile



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British troops move to the scene of a helicopter crash in Basra, May
6, 2006Police in Iraq say a British helicopter has crashed in the
southern city of Basra, apparently after being hit by a rocket or
missile.

Officials say the helicopter went down in a residential area Saturday,
and the bodies of the four crew members were found in the wreckage.

Iraqi police also say four people were killed in a clash between
British troops and a crowd of Iraqis at the crash site. The Iraqis
cheered the crash, threw stones at the troops, and set fire to British
armored vehicles.

Separately, officials say a suicide bomber dressed in an army uniform
blew himself up inside an Iraqi army base in the northern city of
Tikrit earlier today, killing three army officers.

The U.S. military also said a U.S. soldier was killed Friday in
Baghdad in a roadside bomb attack.

In other violence, police say at least two Iraqi truck drivers and
three police commandos were kidnapped in separate incidents in
Mahaweel, 75 kilometers south of the capital, Baghdad.

Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.

 


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