April 9 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. soldiers in Baghdad evacuated police stations and the town hall in Baghdad's Shiite Muslim district of Sadr City after five days of fighting with supporters of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, Agence France-Presse reported.

The district, called Saddam City under ousted President Saddam Hussein, is now named after al-Sadr's father, who was assassinated in 1999. It has been one of the centers of violent attacks against U.S.-led occupation forces in the past week.

U.S. troops pulled out of the central police station in Sadr City, six other police posts and the town hall, AFP said, without giving further details.

(AFP, 4-9)

Last Updated: April 9, 2004 03:01 EDT