An Iraqi citizen was shot dead and three others were injured by US fire in the city of Kerbala on Sunday after demonstrators clashed with American soldiers and Iraqi police, witnesses and hospital workers told Reuters.
Marines said two shots were fired during the protest and they returned fire. According to Reuters, soldiers fired in a bid to disperse stone-throwers angry at the killing of an Iraqi civilian by U.S. forces on Saturday.
Meanwhile, Iraq's transitional Governing Council has called for the bodies of Saddam Hussein's two sons Uday and Qusay to be given to their family, council member Samir Shaker Mahmud al-Sudayii said on Sunday.
Interviewed at a meeting of Baghdad's municipal council, al-Sudayii, told AFP that, if no one claimed the corpses, "other measures will be taken".
Earlier in the day, Sheikh Mahmud al-Nada, leader of the Bunasser tribe allied to Saddam, told the Qatar-based satellite television network al-Jazeera that he "had asked for the bodies, but the coalition refused".
"I put in the request for family and religious reasons, not political ones," he noted in the interview. (Albawaba.com)
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