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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraq said two people were killed and nine wounded on Sunday when Western warplanes bombed targets in the no-fly zone in southern Iraq.

The U.S. military confirmed attacks on two Iraqi surface-to-air missile sites 100 miles (160 km) south of Baghdad, but gave no word of casualties.

The attacks were in retaliation for "illumination of coalition aircraft by targeting radar and a subsequent surface-to-air missile attack on coalition aircraft," Central Command in Florida said in a statement.

U.S. officials said that Air Force F-16s also struck Iraqi radar and anti-aircraft sites on Saturday, after the fighters were fired at.

The U.S. planes used on Sunday came from the aircraft carrier Enterprise, according to the U.S. Southern Air Command. Iraq, however, said that the Western warplanes flew from the direction of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

Iraq's government-run news agency quoted an Iraqi military spokesman as saying Western aircraft "violated our national airspace" beginning at 12:40 p.m. (4:40 a.m. EDT/0840 GMT) Sunday.

"Hostile planes attacked a number of our service utilities and weapons sites in the southern region and the bombing led to martyrdom of two citizens and injuries to another nine, including two women," the spokesman for Iraq's Air Defense Command was quoted as saying.

The spokesman said the planes had flown over the regions of Artawi, al-Chlaiba, al-Salman, al-Samawa and Qa'lat Suker and the deaths occurred in al-Sannia village in Qadissiya province.

"The hostile formations were engaged by our missile and brave ground resistance forces and forced to flee and leave our airspace toward Saudi Arabia and Kuwait at 2:35 p.m. (1035 GMT)," the spokesman said.

Airstrikes against Iraqi military targets became commonplace after Baghdad decided in December to attack U.S. and British jets patrolling the Western-imposed no-fly zones in the north and south of Iraq.

Iraq does not recognize the no-fly zones, set up by the allies after the 1991 Gulf War to protect Kurds in the north and Shi'ite Muslims in the south from possible attack by Baghdad's forces.

The Pentagon has cited about 160 "Iraqi provocations" in the no-fly zones since an intensive four-day attack by U.S. and British planes in December against Iraqi targets.

Reuters contributed to this report.

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