U.S. Rescue Chopper Shoots Six Libyan Villagers As They Welcome Pilots Of Downed Air Force Jet -- The Daily Mail
* Both crewmen injured after ejecting but in safe hands
* Villagers told them 'Don't be scared, we are your friends'
* Father of boy whose leg may have to be amputated bears coalition troops no malice
* Minister refuses to rule out use of ground troops
* Italy calls for Nato co-ordination and labels current command structure 'anarchic'
* Algeria calls western military intervention 'disproportionate'
* Gaddafi snipers on murderous spree in Misarata and guns turned on rebels in Adjabiyah
* Claims Gaddafi's son was killed in suicide air attack being investigated
Six Libyan villagers are recovering in hospital after being shot by American soldiers coming in to rescue the U.S. pilots whose plane crash-landed in a field.
The helicopter strafed the ground as it landed in a field outside Benghazi beside the downed U.S. Air Force F-15E Eagle which ran into trouble during bombing raid last night.
And a handful of locals who had come to greet the pilots were hit - among them a young boy who may have to have a leg amputated because of injuries caused by a bullet wound.
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