Four schoolchildren have been killed by gunfire in Baghdad in another day of violence in Iraq.
Some witnesses said the children, all aged around 12, were shot dead by US troops who opened fire randomly after a bomb ripped through an American military vehicle in the eastern part of the capital.
The witnesses said the children had left their nearby school to look at the burning Humvee and were part of a crowd celebrating the attack, when the deadly shots were fired.
The US military has not commented on the incident.
Elsewhere, multiple rocket attacks on civilian targets in the northern city of Mosul, are reported to have left four people dead.
In a separate development, two US sailors died in the first maritime attacks on Iraqi oil installations since the US-led invasion of Iraq.
They were killed as they tried to prevent what Iraqis described as suicide speedboats from reaching their targets off Iraq's southern coast, near Basra.
