US forces claimed that the building collapsed under heavy fire, killing only four people. (Courtesy: BBC)

LONDON — In a new US massacre against Iraqi civilians, US soldiers have deliberately killed 11 Iraqi civilians, including five children and four women, last March, a video footage obtained by the BBC showed on Thursday, June 1.

Some 11 Iraqi civilians were killed in Ishaqi, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad on March 15.

The US military said at the time that four people were killed when US forces engaged in firefight after a tip-off that an Al-Qaeda element was visiting a house in Ishaqi.

US forces claimed that the building collapsed under heavy fire, killing four people - the suspected Al-Qaeda element, two women and a child.

But a report filed by Iraqi police accused US troops of rounding up and deliberately shooting 11 people in the house before blowing up the building.

The BBC video came as US Marines face charges of killing 24 civilian Iraqis, including women and children, in cold blood last November in the western city of Haditha in what would be the worst case of abuse by American soldiers in Iraq since the 2003 invasion.

The Pentagon decided on Thursday, April 1, to give ethic training to all its troops in Iraq following the Haditha massacre.

Slain Children

The new BBC video tape showed several bodies, including those of three children, one of them covered in blood.

The tape images clearly showed the dead adults and children suffered gunshot wounds.

The video tape has been cross-checked with other images taken at the time of the killing and is believed to be genuine, according to the BBC.

The US military said it was investigating the incident.

Accusations that trigger-happy US soldiers often kill civilians and that little disciplinary action has resulted in the few cases investigated continues to infuriate Iraqis.

Iraqis told Reuters that they were unsurprised by incidents like Haditha as such grisly attacks were part of pattern of US behavior in the country.

They said many other massacres committed by US troops in Iraq went unreported.

The brother of a pregnant woman shot dead at a US checkpoint in Iraq vowed Friday, June 2, to file a complaint against US forces and expose their actions.

"I appeal to all honorable people to stand with me and expose the scandals of the US army and reveal their execution of innocents in Iraq," Raddam Al-Aswadi told Agence France-Presse (AFP).

Al-Aswadi, who was driving his pregnant sister Nabiha to the hospital on Wednesday, took a restricted military road that put him in conflict with a US checkpoint in the restive city of Samarra.

His sister and mother -- not cousin as originally reported -- where shot dead by US soldiers.