IRAQ: GOVERNORS OFFICE IN FALLUJA SET ALIGHT AFTER LOCAL MAN IS SHOT DEAD BY POLICE.

Record ID: 230492

  • Title: IRAQ: GOVERNORS OFFICE IN FALLUJA SET ALIGHT AFTER LOCAL MAN IS SHOT DEAD BY POLICE.
  • Date: 31st October 2003
  • Summary: (U4) FALLUJA, IRAQ (OCTOBER 31, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. WS: OF SMOKE RISING FROM GOVERNORS OFFICE BUILDING (AUDIO GUNFIRE), MEN RUNNING. 0.13 2. VARIOUS: FLAMES RISING FROM BURNING POLICE CAR. (3 SHOTS) 0.29 3. WS: SMOKE RISING AS CAR DRIVES PAST. 0.34 4. WS/MLV: POLICE GATHERED NEAR SCENE (AUDIO GUNFIRE) (2 SHOTS) 0.49 5. WS: MEN WATCHING SMOKE RISING 0.55 (W5) FALLUJA, IRAQ (OCTOBER 31, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 6. WS/ZOOM IN/MLV: PEOPLE THROWING STONES AT THE GOVERNORATE BUILDING. (AUDIO SHOTS FIRED) PEOPLE START RUNNING. 1.03 7. VARIOUS: OF PEOPLE RUNNING AS GUNSHOTS FIRED BY IRAQI POLICE INSIDE THE BUILDING. (3 SHOTS) 1.21 8. VARIOUS: OF U.S. TROOPS IN MILITARY VEHICLES DEPLOYING AT THE GOVERNORATE. (2 SHOTS) 1.37 9. WS: CROWDS WATCHING. (2 SHOTS) 1.49 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 15th November 2003 12:00
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  • Location: FALLUJA, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA36GKF9N8K2VP02MMH4MW4EKES
  • Story Text: Governors office in Falluja set alight after local
    man shot dead by police.



    Furious Iraqis set the governor's office building
    ablaze in the restive town of Falluja on Friday (October
    31) after police shot dead a local man nearby, residents
    said.

    The building was gutted by fire and smoke billowed into
    the sky. Two police cars were also set ablaze in the
    unrest, which locals said followed a bomb blast inside the
    building.

    Police had no immediate comment on the incident.

    Witnesses said there were no casualties from the blast
    as the offices were empty for the Muslim day of rest. But
    after the explosion Iraqi police opened fire outside,
    killing one man whom locals named as Shakir Hikmat.

    Falluja, 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad, is one of
    the flashpoint towns in the "Sunni triangle" region where
    much of the resistance towards the U.S.-led occupation has
    been concentrated. U.S. soldiers come under frequent attack
    in the town and Iraqi police have also been targeted.

    On Tuesday, a suicide car bomber blew himself up
    outside a school 100 metres (yards) from a police station
    in Falluja, killing at least four other people.

    The previous day, suicide car bomb attacks on the
    International Committee of the Red Cross and three police
    stations in Baghdad killed at least 35 people, in the
    bloodiest day in the capital since Saddam Hussein was
    toppled in April.





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