A US airstrike \u2018likely\u2019 killed four civilians when a pair of vehicles was hit during an attack on a reported ISIL checkpoint, a CENTCOM investigation later concluded. After a later investigation by the Washington Post found that eleven civilians actually died \u2013 including five children, four women and two civilian drivers \u2013 the Coalition raised its own estimate to eleven deaths.<\/a><\/p>\n
A major investigation by the Washington Post<\/a> identified the two families killed. The first was that of the driver of the Kia, along with his grandmother, aunt, sister and two children. In the GMC, the driver died along with the family of an Iraqi police commander: \u201cA provincial government official in northern Iraq told Ekabee that the family of a lieutenant colonel with the Iraqi police had been burned alive in the GMC Suburban. \u2018What happened to me, you can\u2019t even imagine,\u2019 the colonel said last month in interview with The Washington Post. He said his 9-year-old daughter; two sons, ages 10 and 16; his wife; and the driver were killed in the attack. He spoke on the condition of anonymity because he still has family trapped in Mosul.\u201c<\/p>\n
The Hatra incident was initially made public with the release of another declassified CENTCOM document which identified 45 problem incidents<\/a> involving Coalition aircraft.<\/p>\n