***** Trigger-happy US troops hit ambulance April 10 2003, 9:05 AM
Baghdad: Two Iraqis were killed and three others wounded today when US troops shot at an ambulance on a central Baghdad street, a doctor told AFP.
"The American troops just mowed down the ambulance which was transporting wounded people from the Saddam Centre for Plastic Surgery to another hospital," said Belgian doctor Geert Van Moorter.
The driver was wounded in the stomach and the offsider in his legs, said Van Moorter, from the Belgian association Medical Aid for the Third World.
The ambulance had been carrying three men wounded by exchanges of fire in the city, he said, adding that two of them were among the dead.
"This is completely unacceptable, and when I went up to a US officer to denounce such behaviour, he just said: 'The ambulance could contain explosives,'" said Van Moorter....
AFP
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