An Iraqi was killed and three others wounded in US-British air strikes in northern Iraq today, a military spokesman said in Baghdad.
The raid came on the same day that Iraq claimed the downing of a US spy plane reported missing by the US military.
Footage of the plane wreckage was broadcast this evening on Iraqi television.
The official INA news agency reported: "Enemy planes, coming from Turkish airspace, bombarded civilian installations in northern Iraq, killing one Iraqi and wounding three others."
Anti-aircraft defense systems fired back and "obliged the enemy planes to to take flight toward their base in Turkey," INA said, quoting a military spokesman.
The report did not say where the victims were found but indicated that the "enemy planes had carried out their raids on the (northern) provinces of Dohuk, Erbil and Nineveh."
From Ankara, the US military confirmed it had bombed northern Iraq in response to Iraqi fire during routine patrols over the no-fly zone in the region.
Aircraft dropped "ordnance on elements of the Iraqi integrated air defense system" after Iraqis fired anti-aircraft artillery from sites north of Mosul, the Germanybased US European Command said in a statement.
The jets returned safely to their base in Incirlik in Turkey's southern province of Adana, the statement added.
The bombing followed the disappearance earlier of the unmanned US surveillance plane in a similar exclusion zone over southern Iraq.
INA had reported out of Baghdad that Iraqi anti-aircraft forces had shot down a US spy plane in the region of the southern port city of Basra.
Later Iraq said that "the reconaissance plane was hit at 9.40 a.m. local time (6.40 a.m. Irish time), after having flown over the regions of Um Qasr and Shuaiba, in the province of Basra," 550 kilometers (340 miles) south of Baghdad.
Although the INA report did not say what type of aircraft had been hit, the agency said it carried "high-tech intelligence gathering equipment that the United States used in its aggression against Yugoslavia."
"It was operating in southern Iraq to gather information on our strategic sites and our anti-aircraft defences," INA said.
AFP