Baghdad, Iraq ? A U.S.-British airstrike in southern Iraq killed seven civilians and wounded four, the Iraqi military said Saturday.

An unidentified military spokesman told the official Iraqi News Agency that warplanes bombed areas Friday in Najaf province, 93 miles south of Baghdad.

The report didn’t provide further details. The U.S. military did not comment immediately, and it was impossible to independently verify the claim.

U.S. and British warplanes monitoring no-fly zones over southern and northern Iraq regularly attack Iraqi military facilities in what they say is response to hostile Iraqi fire.

On Friday, a Pentagon statement said the bombing was in response to Iraq’s firing surface-to-air missiles and anti-aircraft guns at American and British warplanes patrolling a no-fly zone.

It was the first coalition strike on Iraq since President Saddam Hussein’s government accepted the Security Council resolution Wednesday that demanded he disarm and allow inspectors to search for chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.