Foreign security guards kill two Iraqi women

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Private security guards working for an American security company have shot dead two women in Iraq, it was reported today.
The guards were escorting four vehicles through central Baghdad when the two women were shot dead in the district of Karrada today.

An Iraqi government spokesman said: "Preliminary reports indicate that an American security company has opened fire on two women and they were killed."

It is not thought that Blackwater, whose guards last month shot dead 17 people in the Iraqi capital, was involved.

News of the today's shootings came as the Iraqi government demanded that the families of the Blackwater victims should receive millions of pounds in compensation.

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