Four people were killed and two injured in fighting between US troops and Iraqi fighters in Fallujah west of Baghdad, the director of a local hospital told AFP on Friday.
"Four were killed and two were injured in the battle and transported to our hospital," said Hatem Samir, director of the Fallujah Hospital.
The shooting occurred at the eastern entrance to the town.
Elsewhere, resistance fighters detonated explosives on an oil well in northern Iraq sparking a fire that raged for 24 hours before being extinguished, a senior Iraqi security official said Friday. The explosion on the Northern Oil Company well in the Khabaz area, some 85 kilometers west of Kirkuk, occurred Wednesday night, said Gen. Mohammed Amin, the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps chief in Kirkuk. The fire was extinguished late Thursday, he told the AP.
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