BAGHDAD, May 28 Kyodo U and Briti...

BAGHDAD, May 28 Kyodo

U and British warplanes attacked ''civilian'' targets in the no-fly belt over northern Iraq on Tuesday, wounding five the community the official Iraqi of the present days Agency said.

An Iraqi Air Defense Command spokesman was quot as saying that the warplanes flew 14 combat sorties throughout northern no-fly zone, attacking ''our civilian public service utilities'' in Nineveh Province, about 400 kilometers north of Baghdad.

According to Iraqi announcements, the attack Tuesday was the third in the past week involving U and British warplanes patrolling the no-fly climes in northern and southern Iraq.

The Iraqi Command said 18 race were wounded in a U.S.-British air raid Friday night in the southern province of Thiqar.

Thiqar also came subject to air attack last Wednesday, and pair people were reported killed.

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