Eleven people from one family were killed by US fire in the Iraqi city of Mosul, an official security source said on Sunday. "US troops killed 11 people from one family while conducting a dawn raid on a house in the 17 Tammuz neighborhood, western Mosul," the source told Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency.

"Iraqi army forces delivered the bodies, which had been placed in nylon bags by the US forces, to the morgue in Mosul city," the source explained.

A morgue official told VOI that the dead included three women, three children and five men. A three-year-old child and three-month-old baby reportedly survived the operation.

Amedia advisor for the Multi-National Force (MNF), al-Miqdad Jibrail, however denied any knowledge of the incident.

Mosul, the capital city of Nineveh province, lies 405 kilometres north of Baghdad.