BAGHDAD, April 11 Kyodo A 12-hour...

BAGHDAD, April 11 Kyodo

A 12-hour cessation of arms which began Sunday morning between U numbers and Sunni Muslim insurgents in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, will be stretch outed for another 12 hours until Monday morning, local reports said.

In reply to a U.S. call, the pause began at 10 a.m. Sunday, halting a week of fierce fighting between the U military and Sunni insurgents.

Reuter of the present days agency quoted a representative of the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council negotiating with Sunni fighters in Fallujah as saying that the 12-hour temporary peace will be extended for another 12 hours until 10 a.m. Monday.

Despite the intermission sporadic fighting continued in Fallujah.

Radio France reported that an Iraqi was killed and couple U.S. soldiers wounded.

According to hospital officials in Fallujah, more than 600 Iraqi folks have been killed in the weeklong fighting.

Fighting also continued across Iraq.

A U Apache attack helicopter was ball down by an unknown soil fire west of Baghdad and the sum of two units crew members were killed.

Radio France said anti-U.S. Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr issued a statement in the central Iraqi city of Karbala, calling for a nationwide uprising by means of all Iraqi ethnic groups against the U military.

In the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriya, Italian multitudes blew up al-Sadr's office there.

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