Syria rockets kill girl in Iraq

FALLUJAH (AFP) - Mortar rounds or rockets fired from Syria killed a young Iraqi girl and wounded four people in a border town in western Iraq, an army officer and the interior ministry said on Saturday. Captain Ali Juwayir from Anbar Operations Command said four mortar rounds hit Al-Qaim shortly before midnight on Friday, adding that two homes in the town were struck. Juwayir said a four-year-old girl was killed and four other people were wounded, a toll confirmed by Dr Mustafa Shawki of Al-Qaim hospital. The Iraqi interior ministry, meanwhile, said in a statement that “four rockets launched from the Syrian side... resulted in the wounding and martyrdom of some of our citizens.” 

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