Coalition forces kill 10 insurgents

Baghdad: In three simultaneous raids north of Baghdad, coalition forces killed 10 insurgents and an Iraqi civilian on Saturday, and destroyed a factory being used to make roadside bombs, the US military said.

A pregnant Iraqi woman also was wounded during the fighting in Taji, a city about 20 kilometres north of Baghdad where a major US air base is located.

Coalition forces discovered the factory and hidden caches of rocket-propelled grenades, machine guns, anti-aircraft weapons and pipe bombs, and called in US aircraft to destroy them, the military said.

During the fighting, soldiers killed 10 insurgents and wounded a pregnant woman and a teenage boy. The teen was taken to a hospital where he died, the coalition said. The woman was treated there for minor injuries.

On Friday, another US raid in the nearby town of Tarmiyah destroyed another bombing making facility.