US forces have bombed the Baghdad suburb of Sadr City, killing up to five people and wounding 46, including women and children. Residents said loud explosions echoed throughout the night and US jets repeatedly swooped low over the sprawling slum, home to many supporters of Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr. Dr Qasim Saddam of the Imam Ali hospital in Sadr City said on Monday that five people were killed and 40 wounded, including 15 women and nine children. At least two children wrapped in bloodstained bandages could be seen lying in hospital beds and one man suffered burns from head-to-toe. A US army spokesman had no immediate comment on the attack. Aws al-Khafaji, head of the al-Sadr office in Nasiriya, told Aljazeera the Shia leader intended to issue a new peace initiative on Iraq's current situation. Iraqi girl, Saja Rahim, seven, has been wounded in the attack US forces recently launched an extensive crackdown in Sadr City in an effort to subdue al-Sadr's al-Mahdi Army fighters. On Wednesday, 22 people were killed and 48 wounded in clashes in Sadr City between fighters loyal to al-Sadr and US and Iraqi forces. Elsewhere in northeast Baghdad, a US military Hummer was damaged on Monday when an explosive device targeting a US patrol detonated at the entrance of Miqdadiya city, Aljazeera has learned. US forces have cordoned off the explosion site, but made no mention of casualties. **Mosul blast*** At least three Iraqi policemendied in the explosion Meanwhile, a car bomb exploded in the northeastern city of Mosul on Monday as a seven-vehicle Iraqi National Guard patrol was passing by, killing three policemen and injuring five others, according to an Iraqi journalist interviewed by Aljazeera. Police say at least four guardsmen were killed and three wounded. Armed assailants followed up the blast with a burst of automatic weapons fire before fleeing the scene, said Lt Colonel Salih Jamir, the patrol's commander. He said two guard vehicles and two civilian cars were damaged in the attack. **Baquba attack*** Earlier on Monday, mortar bombs were fired at a police academy in eastern Baghdad, but there were no reports of casualties, the Interior Ministry said. The Iraqi National Guard is often targeted in attacks Spokesman Colonel Adnan Abd Al-Rahman said five mortar shells landed near the academy, causing no damage to the building. Four Iraqis were killed and one injured in a roadside bombing late on Sunday in the town of Khan Bani Saad, northeast of Baghdad on the road to Baquba, police and one of the injured said on Monday. The men were farmers travelling in a pickup truck carrying petrol canisters for their own use when they hit a roadside bomb 20km south of Baquba, said an injured man, Falah Turki, who was driving the vehicle. Police in Baquba confirmed the attack **Falluja Official: Only civilians killed*** As Falluja residents pick up the pieces after two days of US air and artillery strikes, a city official is saying that all the casualties in the attacks were civilian residents. Mahmud al-Jarisi, Falluja city commissioner, told Aljazeera that sections of the city that faced US military positions had been evacuated and the neighbourhoods recently targeted were in the heart of Falluja and crowded with civilians. "The city houses large numbers of people," he said. "They cannot all leave the city due to their huge number and miserable living situations. They cannot leave and be a burden on other families," he added. At least 15 people were killed and 25 wounded on Saturday in what US military authorities are calling a precision strike targeting "terrorists meeting in the Jolan district of Falluja". "The last bombing targeted a residential area and casualties were all civilians," al-Jarisi said. US military authorities, however, insist that no civilians were in the targeted areas, based on intelligence information they received. "Intelligence sources indicated that approximately 10 terrorists were meeting at this location to plan operations targeting innocent Iraqi civilians and multi-national forces," said a US military statement on the strike carried out at 1800 GMT on Saturday. **Bad intelligence?*** Al-Jarisi, however, suggested the intelligence may have been faulty. "Falluja's civilians are paying the price of the US forces' mistakes and strikes," al-Jarisi said. "They are the victims of information received by these forces." An Iraqi journalist told Aljazeera that the US raid targeted a residential area in the Golan area of Falluja. Abu Bakr al-Dulaimi said: "US forces always claim the targeted sites host followers of al-Zarqawi, but they are citizens' residences." **No longer safe*** Reuters Television showed rescuers pulling survivors out of the ruins of a destroyed house. Two women and one young child were among those rescued from the rubble. "They believe the US raids are planned operations that come to avenge the citizens' resistance against the US forces," al-Dulaimi added. "There is no single neighbourhood in Falluja that is safe or secure," he said. "People fleeing the city do not head towards other neighbourhoods, they leave it entirely." **PHOTO CAPTION*** Wounded Iraqi children in Fallujah. The children were victims of US air strikes late 25 September 2004. (AFP)