Seven Palestinians were injured in similar overnight clashes that began Saturday.

Hospital officials reported eight Iraqis - including three children and two women - had been killed there in overnight clashes between militiamen and American soldiers.

Particularly, overnight clashes in the Paris suburb of Grigny on 6-7 November (in 2005) leave 10 police injured, two seriously.

He did not say exactly where the overnight clash took place.

Seventeen soldiers also died in overnight clashes with suspected army deserters in the city, which foreign journalists are forbidden to enter.

But doctors at a local hospital said at least 13 people were killed and a dozen others wounded, when American troops and insurgents engaged in overnight clashes.

July 21 - Six Russian soldiers were killed and eight wounded in an overnight clash with separatist fighters near the village of Dyshne-Vedeno.

May 14: In overnight clashes five people were killed in Sadr City.

May 15: In overnight clashes in Baghdad's Sadr City slum 7 people were killed and 19 were wounded.

Nine people have been arrested in overnight clashes with police.