Pentagon: At least 105 civilians killed in US air raid on Mosul in March
A Pentagon investigation says at least 105 Iraqi civilians lost their lives in a US airstrike on the embattled Iraqi city of Mosul back in March.
The US bombarded a concrete building in Mosul’s western al-Jadida district, where Iraqi forces were fighting against terrorists, on March 17. The deadly aerial assault caused the building to collapse.
The Pentagon acknowledged in a statement that the US had carried out the fatal attack and launched a probe into whether it was US munitions, explosives belonging to Takfiri Daesh militants, or both that caused the building to fall down.
On Thursday, the Pentagon investigation found that a 500-pound US GBU-38 bomb triggered secondary explosions from devices clandestinely planted by Daesh in the building, causing the structure to collapse.
US Air Force Brigadier General Matthew C. Isler, the lead investigator, said 101 civilians were killed in the building, and four others died in a nearby structure.
