BBC's Simpson wounded in US friendly fire attack

BBC journalist John Simpson was wounded today in an apparent friendly fire bombing of an American and Kurdish convoy that killed up to 12 people.

BBC journalist John Simpson was wounded today in an apparent friendly fire bombing of an American and Kurdish convoy that killed up to 12 people.

Simpson, who filed a report within minutes of the attack, in northern Iraq, described “a scene from hell” as bodies littered the dusty roadside amid the burning wrecks of the convoy.

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