Freed Iraq hostage hurt in friendly-fire shooting

American troops fired on a car rushing Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena to freedom after a month in captivity, killing an Italian intelligence officer who helped negotiate her release and wounding the reporter in another friendly-fire tragedy at a US checkpoint in Baghdad.

Sgrena was discharged from a hospital in Baghdad and was on her way back to Italy early today, the news agency ANSA and Sky TG24 television reported.