A US-British airstrike on a football field in northern Iraq has killed 11 people and injured 11, Iraqi authorities have claimed.
Allied planes have attacked Tall Afar, 440 kilometres north west of Baghdad, the capital, the Iraqi News Agency said.
The British Ministry of Defence has dismissed the reports as propaganda and stated that British planes have come under attack while on operations over Iraq.
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The MoD spokesman added: "As far as the coalition is concerned we have not dropped any bombs or ordnance either today or yesterday.
"It is yet another example of the Iraqis lying. It is propaganda. We have checked with our flight crews and operations staff in Turkey and they have dropped no bombs in the last two days. There is no way it could be down to us. That is in spite of our planes being shot at this morning."
The Iraqi state-run news agency has not stated when the attack took place, but it said the victims have been buried.
"America and its ally, Britain, have committed a new ugly crime that will be added to the record of their heinous crimes against Iraq," INA said.
A spokesman for US forces at Incirlik air base in Turkey, from where flights over northern Iraq take off, has denied anything was bombed today.
Allied aircraft patrol the no-fly zones over southern and northern Iraq, which were established after the 1991 Gulf War to protect Shiite Muslim rebels in the south and Kurds in the north. British and American jets enforcing the no-fly zone over northern Iraq are based in Turkey.
Iraq does not recognise the no-fly zones and has challenged allied aircraft since December 1998.
PA