Us-led coalition responsible for attack which killed 200 woman and children
(DAILY MAIL, LONDON),
25.03.2017 - A Us-led coalition against the Islamic State group said that it bombed a neighbourhood in west Mosul, Iraq where civilians were reportedly killed by aerial bombing.
Iraqi officials and witnesses say that strikes in west Mosul have killed dozens of people in recent days, but the number of victims could not be independently confirmed, and the toll from the specific strike referenced by the coalition was unclear.it said at the beginning of this month that ‘it is more likely than not, at least 220 civilians have been unintentionally killed by coalition strikes’, while other incidents were still under investigation.
The news comes a day after the coalition said it was investigating reports that scores of civilians died in the March 17 blasts, which will rank among the highest civilian death tolls in an American air mission since the United States went to war in Iraq in 2003.
Maj. Gen. Maan al-saadi, a commander of the Iraqi special forces, said that the civilian deaths were a result of a coalition airstrike that his men had requested in order to take out ISIS snipers on the roofs of three houses in a neighbourhood called Mosul Jidideh.