Baghdad, April 30, SPA -- A Sadrist leader said on Wednesday that at least 500 people have been killed, most of them women and children, and 2,000 wounded in the ongoing intense clashes between insurgents and Iraqi forces in Baghdad's Sadr City since March 25. Fatah al-Sheikh, a Sadrist leader, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur(DPA) that the situation in Sadr City is "dramatic." He added: "A crisis is widely anticipated in the city amid agovernmental total silence". US air raids on the city continued between late Tuesday and theearly hours Wednesday amid intense clashes between insurgents and Iraqi forces, al-Sheikh said. Sadr City inhabitants were moving from the area due to thecontinuous clashes and violence, al-Sheikh said. On Tuesday, at least 28 people were killed during clashes in SadrCity. Meanwhile, two members of the Awakening Councils were killed and another one was wounded when a road bomb went off in Abasy area in the Northern city of Tikrit, Iraqi police sources told DPA.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/551335