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BAQOUBA, Iraq (AP) -- A U.S. military helicopter crashed Wednesday and was seen burning in the central Iraqi city of Baqouba, where Shiite militiamen and American troops were fighting, a witness said. There was no immediate word on casualties.
The crash came immediately after an explosion was heard, said Mohammed Adnan, an AP photographer at the site. He saw the helicopter in flames in a field near a residential neighborhood. U.S. troops closed off the site.
It was not immediately known what caused the crash.
U.S. troops and Shiite militiamen clashed Wednesday in Baqouba, 30 miles northeast of Baghdad. During the fighting, militiamen attacked the governor's offices with rocket-propelled grenades.
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