Reply #62: According to BBC, some of the people killed were factory workers

[IndianaGreen]

killed by an American tank as their shift ended.

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Last Updated: Sunday, 30 November, 2003, 23:14 GMT
Many dead in Iraqi city firefight

Five US soldiers and a civilian were wounded in the fighting which raged as militants made a series of attacks on convoys in the city on Sunday.

But witnesses said a US tank had fired indiscriminately during the fighting, killing at least two factory-workers.

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Frightened witnesses in Samarra told a correspondent for the French news agency AFP who managed to enter the city that US forces had repeatedly come under attack on Sunday.

However, they added that, in the aftermath of one attack at about 1255 (0955 GMT), an American tank had opened fire on workers leaving a factory at the end of their shift, killing two and wounding "many".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3251690.stm