WASHINTON, May 28 — Democratic Representative John Murtha today denounced the Pentagon’s attempts to cover up an alleged civilian massacre in Iraq committed by U.S. soldiers.

In declarations to ABC television network, the war veteran, now a U.S. legislator, accused the military of trying to bury the case in which U.S. soldiers are suspected to have murdered 24 Iraqi civilians, reports PL.

Since March, when the British daily The Times revealed the information, no one has given any attention to what happened, indicated Murtha, a decorated former Marine and advocate of withdrawing the troops from Iraq.

This Saturday, CNN dedicated an ample timeslot to reviewing the accusations by an Iraqi child published in the British newspaper, in which she tells how the soldiers killed her family.

The case, under investigation by authorities, occurred in the town of Haditha, 200 kilometers northeast of Baghdad.

Iman Hassan told the publication that U.S. soldiers came to her house and fired point blank at her family after a U.S. soldier, Miguel Terrazas, 20, was killed in the street.

"Everyone in the house was killed by the Americans, except my brother Abdul Rahman and me," the girl said.