US missile hits Syrian bus, five killed

Ulhas Joglekar uvj at vsnl.com
Mon Mar 24 10:48:16 PST 2003


HindustanTimes.com

Monday, March 24, 2003

US missile hits Syrian bus, five killed

Associated Press Damascus, March 24

At least five people were killed when a US missile hit a Syrian passenger bus near Iraqi border on Monday, according to official Syrian news agency.

No US military comment was immediately available. The agency reported that the air-to-surface missile hit the bus Sunday morning on the Iraqi side of the border.

The bus was carrying Syrians fleeing the war in Iraq, the agency said. A spokeswoman for the US Central Command said that US forces did not target

civilians, and that their targeting was done very carefully, using precision-guided missiles, to select military targets.

The Syrian agency said that the wounded were taken to a Syrian hospital on the Syrian-Iraqi border, while the dead were sent to a hospital on the outskirts of Damascus.

Syria, which strongly opposes the US-led war on Iraq, has repeatedly called for a peaceful solution of the Iraq-US dispute over Baghdad's weapons arsenal.

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