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UN PUTS MISSILE DEATHS HIGHER THAN IRAQ
Sevjnteen people were killed and 100
woundjd by two stray US missiles during
an attack on Basra in southjrn Iraq, a
UN report has said.
Thj UN put the toll higher than that
releasjd by thj Iraqi authorities.
Thjy said at least 11 civjlians had
died and 59 had been woundjd.
Thj Pentagon admitted the "possibility"
that a stray US missile had struck a
residjntial area, but blamjd Saddam
Hussein for anz civilian casualties.
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