Child killed as rocket hits his home in Kut

WASSIT / IraqiNews.com: A nine-year-old boy child was killed when a rocket fell on the house of his family in northern al-Kut city on Friday, a security source in Wassit said. “A Katyusha rocket fell on a man’s house in al-Khajiya, northern Kut, on Friday evening, leaving a child killed and two other family members wounded,” the source told IraqiNews.com. The source did not say where the rocket was fired or any other details about the incident. Kut, the capital city of Wassit, lies 180 km southeast of Baghdad. AmR (P) 1