Baghdad - US troops shot and critically wounded a newly-wed Iraqi woman working for a television news station after she failed to heed warnings from American soldiers in Baghdad, the US military and her station said on Saturday.
A US military statement said that a combined team of Iraqi police and US soldiers had observed the woman, who had had failed to listen to warnings, behaving "erratically" before US soldiers shot her.
"Concerned by the danger she might present to the security forces and civilians, given her repeated failure to respond to warnings, multi-national division Baghdad soldiers fired two rounds, wounding the woman."
Mohsen al-Darraji, a spokesperson for Beladi TV, said that 25-year-old Hadeel Emad, a producer with Beladi, had failed to heed warning shots because she had impaired hearing.
"The American troops did shoot in the air but she did not hear due to her hearing condition," Darraji told AFP.
"The American troops shot her and the bullet entered her chest and came out of her back."
Beladi TV, which is owned by former prime minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, said Emad, was in critical condition at Baghdad's Al-Yarmuk hospital.
"American forces shot Hadeel Emad who works as a producer and critically wounded her...We are condemning this brutal crime, which was committed by US forces against Hadeel Emad," it said.
Emad had married just one week ago, the station said.
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