US military truck crushes civilian car, killing three Iraqis

Three Iraqi civilians were killed Friday when a US military truck ran over a civilian vehicle on the main road between Tikrit and Kirkuk north of Baghdad, police said.

"A convoy of US military trucks was heading toward Kirkuk at about 8:00 a.m. (0500 GMT) on Friday, when one of its trucks ran over a civilian car coming from the other side, killing three people aboard," a source in Tikrit police told Xinhua.

"The civilian car was leveled on the road," said the source, adding the remains of the victims were evacuated to a hospital in Tikrit, some 180 km north of Baghdad.

Witnesses said the US truck was one of the 10 trucks within a US military convoy, and they were traveling in the middle of the two-way road.

There was no word from the US military on the incident.

Source: Xinhua