A US bombing raid on the Iraqi town of Falluja, west of Baghdad, has reportedly killed five people and wounded six, as anti-government forces hit oil-related targets. A journalist from Falluja, Abu Bakr al-Dulaimi, told Aljazeera on Friday that four Iraqi women were among the wounded when US warplanes bombed a milk factory in an overnight raid. Although the standoff in Najaf - between US and Iraqi government forces on the one hand and militiamen loyal to Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr on the other - has captured international attention, fighting continues to rage in Falluja and elsewhere. Anti-government forces have additionally targeted oil infrastructure in recent days. US warplanes have bombed the mainly Sunni town almost daily over the past week. Eight people - including women and children - were killed after US forces clashed with resistance fighters on Saturday. US forces stormed the mainly Shia suburb of Sadr City in Baghdad on Thursday, calling on al-Mahdi Army fighters to surrender. The fighting has put Premier Iyyad Allawi on the back foot less than two months after he assumed office with a pledge to stabilise Iraq ahead of January elections. **Oil targets attacked*** It has also disrupted Iraq's oil exports and unnerved world oil markets. Crude oil futures prices touched a record 48.88 US dollar for a barrel of US light crude on Friday. Al-Sadr aides have told Aljazeera al-Mahdi Army fighters would attack oil infrastructure targets if US-led forces continued assaults in Najaf. A pipeline linking the main northern oilfields of Kirkuk to the Baiji refinery was damaged when a makeshift bomb exploded early on Friday, hampering oil distribution. On Thursday, the headquarters of the Southern Oil Company in the port city of Basra were torched. "It was not an accident. The fire is huge," said an official of the state-owned company. **PHOTO CAPTION*** A Mahdi army soldier receives aid donated by Fallujah residents in the Najaf, Iraq Saturday Aug. 14, 2004. (AP)