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An Iraqi female allegedly raped and murdered by a US soldier in March was aged 14.

It had previously been suggested in court documents that she was 25, while the US military documented her as 20. Local officials and relatives had said she was 15 or 16.

But her identity card and a copy of her death certificate, obtained by Reuters, show she was 14.

Abeer Qasim Hamza al-Janabi was born on August 19, 1991, in Baghdad, according to the identity card provided by a relative. Issued in 1993, it features a photograph of her at 18 months, wide-eyed and with a lick of dark hair over her brow.

Her death certificate, dated March 13 and signed by doctor Wael Habib and a registrar, says she was found dead at home by a relative on March 12. She had died from "gunshot wounds to the head, with burns".

No independent verification of the documents was immediately available.

Former private Steven Green was charged as a civilian in a US court with rape and four murders.