Victims of joint U.S.-Iraqi landing on Tikrit village reaches 4 killed

SALAHAL-DIN / IraqiNews.com: The number of victims of the joint U.S.-Iraqi air-landing on al-Rifeiat tribe’s village in Balad township of Salahal-Din Province on Saturday, has reached 4 civilians killed, the Tribe’s Sheikh reported.   “The number of victims of the joint U.S.-Iraqi air-landing on al-Rifeiat village of Balad township, 95 km to the south of Tikrit, has reached 5 persons killed,” Sheikh Yousif al-Rufeie told IraqiNews.com news agency.   He added that he had raised a court case against the said joint U.S.-Iraqi air-landing at Balad’s police, charging the joint force’s soldiers with “having executed the four persons, including an old man, with cold blood,” stressing that the bodies of the victims were handed over to Balad’s General Hospital to prove the means of the killing.   Rifaie had told IraqiNews.com early in the day that 3 of his tribe’s men have been killed and 6 others, including women and children, had been injured in a joint U.S.-Iraqi air-landing on his village, south of Tikrit.   Tikrit, the center of Salahal-Din Province , is 175 km to the northwest of Baghdad .   SKH (IT) 809