[国际新闻] 美军黑鹰直升机巴格达被击落

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驻伊美军一架「黑鹰」直升机4月5日在巴格达南部被武装人员击落坠毁，目前还没有人员伤亡报告。2 W# L' _; N/ d5 k7 j
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据中国日报网站消息，伊拉克军方一名匿名官员透露说，这架直升机是当地时间5日早晨7时30分左右在巴格达以南约30公里的拉蒂菲耶遭到袭击，武装人员很明显使用了防空重型机枪。目前还没有伤亡报告，美军已经将现场封锁.csuchen.de( I8 g6 _5 Q, P5 i) z( Z
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据悉，拉蒂菲耶位于有「死亡三角区」之称的巴格达南部村镇地带，是逊尼派武装人员的一个据点。
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美军直升机最近一次在巴格达失事发生于上个月1日，一架OH-58D「奇欧瓦」(KIOWA)侦察直升机在伊拉克北部「硬着陆」，两名飞行员受伤。此前一个星期，美军另一架「黑鹰」直升机在巴格达北部坠毁。9 R* N  n+ S: Z/ p0 K

/ w# v1 J  y" h) ~0 TU.S. helicopter goes down after coming under fire south of Baghdad: Iraqi army official, h& S3 Y; U9 l+ X% a3 x( {

4 P7 L3 V2 D8 e; h4 {4 \4 hcsuchen.deBAGHDAD: A U.S. helicopter went down after coming under fire Thursday in a Sunni militant stronghold south of Baghdad but there was no immediate word on casualties, an Iraqi army official said. The U.S. military said it was looking into the report.- H, h! G  e! x3 W
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Gunmen opened fire on a Black Hawk helicopter at about 7:30 a.m. as it flew over Latifiyah, 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of Baghdad, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.csuchen.de2 B8 o  z- r8 u
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The helicopter went down in a rural area and U.S. forces had cordoned off the site, the official said. He had no information on casualties but said the militants apparently were using anti-aircraft heavy machine gun.
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Latifiyah is part of the area dubbed the Triangle of Death because of frequent insurgent attacks.. X1 K0 z9 J' O5 V
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The last helicopter incident in Iraq occurred on March 1, when an OH-58 Kiowa helicopter made a "hard landing" in northern Iraq leaving the two crew members wounded. A week earlier, ground fire forced the downing of a Black Hawk north of Baghdad.人在德国 社区, _  a  D4 C8 D. q

/ F9 k5 Z+ ]1 I# V1 P5 w/ @, k+ K3 tWith Thursday's incident, at least nine U.S. helicopters have crashed or been brought down by hostile fire this year in Iraq.