At least 22 people died Wednesday in a fresh bout of violence in Iraq, including eight people in a US strike on Baghdad's Shia enclave of Sadr City, while the police found rockets in a big weapons cache in the south. At least eight people were killed and 13 injured Wednesday when US aircraft bombed positions of the Mahdi Army militia in Sadr City in eastern Baghdad, according to witnesses.
Fresh clashes between the Shiite Mahdi Army and US forces broke out Tuesday evening, the witnesses said. Iraqi special forces backed by US troops conducted operations in the area "to reduce special groups' criminal activity," the US military said in a statement Wednesday.
In south-east Baghdad, police killed eight gunmen during a raid in Amin district, General Qasim Atta, the spokesman for the Baghdad operations, told the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency. In the northern sity of Mosul, four Iraqi army soldiers were killed in clashes with insurgents, a security source said.