CANBERRA, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- The commander of Australian forces in Iraq said on Monday that preliminary investigation found Australian soldiers shooting at a car in Baghdad did not overreact.

    On Saturday night local Baghdad time, Australian soldiers opened fire on a vehicle which continued to drive toward them despite repeated requests to stop.

    The woman in the car was shot on head and a boy was hurt by broken glass.

    "We have done a quick assessment of the actions that were carried out by the soldiers and given the circumstances, our firstassessment is it looks as if the actions of the soldiers on the ground were appropriate," Greg Evans, the commander of Australian forces in Iraq, told Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio.

    He said the male driver of the car ignored repeated directions in Arabic to stop.

    "When they believed themselves to be in danger from the vehicle(the Australians) engaged it with small arms fire. The driver briefly emerged from the vehicle then got back in and reversed away in the opposite direction at high speed and the vehicle then disappeared," he said.

    Australian troops managed to know that the woman was recoveringafter her family sent her to a hospital. The boy has been released from hospital after glass was removed from a wound under an eye, Evans said.

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