A woman and two children were among five people killed in an air strike on a car today, Iraqi police and hospital officials said. But the US military said it was unaware of the incident.
Captain Ahmed Ali of the Jazeera police station in Ramadi, a bastion of the Sunni insurgency, said the bodies of two men, two children and a woman had been recovered at the scene, in the Albu Ubeid area. Raed Mohammed, a doctor at a local clinic, also said he saw the five bodies.
Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, is the capital of Anbar province.
"There are no reports that match anything like this," a US military spokesman in Baghdad said in response to an inquiry.
When four women were among eight people killed in a US air strike on a house in another violent area yesterday, the US military accused militants of placing civilians in danger and repeated its policy of seeking to avoid innocent casualties.
The deaths of women and children in military operations is a common cause of resentment among Iraqis against US forces.