BEIJING, April 24 (Xinhuanet) -- The US military says it has detained six Iraqi men in connection with the shooting down of a commercial helicopter this week in which 11 people were killed, including six Americans.

    The arrests were made on Saturday following tip offs from Iraqi civilians who led US forces to where the suspected attackers lived. It was not known where the men were seized.

    The military said that three men and bomb-making material were found in one house, and three others who in the process of making bombs were found in a second house. All six were detained for questioning.

    The Russian-made Mi-8 helicopter was shot down on Thursday as it travelled across a deserted region north of Baghdad.

    Video tapes released by an insurgent group to an Arabic-language satellite channel show the helicopter was shot down by some sort of rocket.

    It was the first civilian aircraft to be shot down in Iraq.

    
(Source: CRIENGLISH.com)