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March blast in Mosul killed 105 - US US air strike on IS killed 105 civilians in Iraq's Mosul
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More than 100 Iraqi civilians were killed by US air strike and blast in Mosul in March, US military confirms The United States has admitted that at least 105 Iraqi civilians were killed in an air strike it carried out in Mosul in March.
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version. US Central Command (CentCom) said it had targeted two snipers from so-called Islamic State (IS) with what it called a "precision-guided munition."
If you want to receive Breaking News alerts via email, or on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App then details on how to do so are available on this help page. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on Twitter to get the latest alerts. However, the strike detonated explosives that militants had placed in the building, CentCom said.
Civilians sheltering in the lower floors were killed when it collapsed.
CentCom said the death toll included four civilians in another nearby structure.
Eyewitnesses claimed another 36 non-combatants were also in the building, but US authorities said it had "insufficient evidence to determine their status".
CentCom previously said the planes had acted at the request of Iraqi security forces, as coalition forces attempted to wrest control of the city from IS.
A summary of the investigation said those organising the strike "could not have predicted the presence of civilians in the structure prior to the engagement".
The explosives hidden by IS were at least four times more powerful than the weapon used in the air strike, it said.
Initial media reports had placed the casualty estimates as high as 200.
Hundreds of thousands of civilians have fled the northern Iraqi city as the operation to reclaim it has continued.
Thousands of Iraqi security forces, Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, Sunni Arab tribesmen and Shia militiamen, assisted by US-led coalition warplanes and military advisers, are involved in the offensive, which was launched in October 2016.