Baquba today killed at least 25 people the American military

Iraqis stand near a wounded relative at a hospital in Baghdad 05 October 2007 after they came to the Iraqi capital to seek better medical treatment following a US air raid in their village of Al-Jayzani, near Baquba, northeast of Baghdad. US operations near the Iraqi city of Baquba today killed at least 25 people the American military said were "criminals", while Iraqi officials said women and children had been killed. "Seventeen people were killed, 27 were wounded and eight are missing including women and children," a defence ministry official told AFP