U.S. military helicopter crashes in Iraq
The Associated Press
4/7/2004, 9:45 a.m. ET
BAQOUBA, Iraq (AP) ? A U.S. military helicopter made an emergency landing in the city of Baqouba on Wednesday after it was hit by small arms fire, the military said.
No one was wounded in the incident and the military planned to transport the OH-58 Kiowa helicopter to a nearby base by truck, a U.S. official in Baghdad said.
Associated Press photographer Mohammed Adnan earlier said he heard an explosion and then saw a military helicopter burning on the ground in a field near a residential neighborhood in Baqouba. U.S. troops closed off the site.
U.S. troops and Shiite militiamen clashed Wednesday in Baqouba, 30 miles northeast of Baghdad. During the fighting, militiamen hit the governor's offices with rocket-propelled grenades.