Freed Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena who was kidnapped on Feb. 4 in Iraq flied back home Saturday, one day after she was wounded by US troops in Iraq.

Sgrena, the war reporter for Il Manifesto daily was freed and handed over to three Italian agents on Friday.

When the agents were driving her to airport, US soldiers at a checkpoint opened fire on her car, wounding her and killing an Italian agent. The US military said her car did not heed warning of the checkpoint.

US President George W. Bush had phoned Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to express his regret over the incident and pledged a full investigation into the shooting accident.

Source: Xinhua