Reports that 18 children died when a bomb went off near a football pitch in Iraq on Tuesday were mistaken, say local officials.
It's thought the reports were based on a mixed-up account of a truck bomb in the same city, Ramadi, the day before.
The U.S. army, which has a lot of soldiers in the area, said it hadn't heard anything about the pitch attack.
The confusion might have come about because the victims of Monday's attack were buried on Tuesday.
The US military has also said it blew up a large store of weapons in Ramadi on Tuesday.
That explosion was bigger than they expected, and hurt 30 people. This could have added to the confusion.
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