Police said today four Iraqis were killed and five were wounded when US forces opened fire at a checkpoint just outside the volatile town of Falluja.
Police said the four dead, a woman and three men, were from the same family.
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An Iraqi girl in a hospital near the town of Fallujaafter being injured by US soldiers yesterday
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A US military spokesman confirmed an incident last night but said two Iraqis were killed and four were wounded when a vehicle ran a checkpoint.
Falluja is about 50 kms (30 miles) west of Baghdad, in the so-called "Sunni Triangle" where resistance to the US occupation is strongest and American forces often come under attack.
Last week Falluja residents said a teenager was killed when US troops heard celebratory shots from a wedding party and opened fire mistakenly thinking they were being attacked.
Meanwhile, the US military said there had been an attack near a Baghdad hotel housing senior military and civilian staff of Iraq's US-led administration this morning.
An official near the hotel said three rocket-propelled grenades were fired in the direction of the hotel, but there were no casualties reported.