unfortunately there s going to be these kind of incidents. one of the things when the iraqis make these advances and they see the fighting positions oftentimes they ll call an air strike. if you ve got troops in context and you call for an air strike, most likely you ll get it. it s up to the commander to gauge how much danger he s putting the civilian population in. they air on the safety of their own troops. this is a no-win situation. they re being faced with these trapped cars, they come rushing at them. they have to act very quickly. top u.s. commander in the middle east caused these civilian debts. he said the coalition is taking extraordinary measures to keep people safe. more now from northern iraq. the investigations are on going what we ve been able to preliminary piece together on march 17th, according to one of
had pulled 81 bodies of the out rubble. according to our team in northern iraq, spoke to one eyewitness who was a resident in that area who left after that incident took place. as they were fleeing, they heard the screams of people, presumably from under the rubble, calling for help. so we could see a rise in that death toll in the coming days. well, it s really unclear what took place on march 17th, it would seem, at this point, that it s seems that many innocent lives were loss. some have said the style of combat needs to change, as the fighting pushes into mosul, how is that going to translate on the ground? reporter: well, this is what we re hearing from iraqi commanders, on the ground saying that because of this complex battle right now, that they will need to be using different
tactics are needed to push isis out of its major strong hold to help keep civilians out of harm s way. the iraqi and u.s. military are looking into whether recent air strikes unsbepgsally killed dozens of civilians in mosul. in particular, there are questions about one strike on an isis truck bombing the city on march 17th. iraqi commander said the blast killed dozens of people nearby homes. let s found out more who is monitoring this from instanbul. what are we learning about the circumstances of that air strike? reporter: well, it s been more than a week since that incident in focus took place. it s really unclear what happened in western mosul. what we do know, is over the past few days, we ve heard from local officials in mosul saying that there was a large number of