MUSSAYEB, Iraq, Sept 13 (AFP) - Six Iraqi villagers were killed and seven wounded Sunday when US troops destroyed four homes in Snaidijeh, south of Baghdad, police and medics said.
"We have received six bodies, including four brothers and their two cousins, and have treated six injured and transferred a woman to Baghdad because she was so seriously wounded," said the director of the nearby Mussayeb hospital.
Another doctor, Ibrahim al-Janabi, who lives in the village, said seven artillery shells where fired from a US outpost in the Mussayeb power station that destroyed four homes.
US military spokesmen had no immediate comment.