Al-Sadr 'not injured' in Najaf fighting

Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has not been injured in fighting in Najaf, Iraqi officials have said.

Al-Sadr, who has led an uprising against coalition and Iraqi troops for more than a week, was earlier reported to have been hiding, injured, in Najaf’s sacred compound housing the Imam Ali shrine, surrounded by his followers.