IRAQ: AN IRAQI MP AND A SENIOR POLICE OFFICER TARGETED BY CAR BOMBS IN A DAY OF VIOLENCE

Record ID: 230514

  • Title: IRAQ: AN IRAQI MP AND A SENIOR POLICE OFFICER TARGETED BY CAR BOMBS IN A DAY OF VIOLENCE
  • Date: 29th June 2005
  • Summary: (BN06) KIRKUK, IRAQ (JUNE 28, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. SLV CARS ON FIRE AT SCENE OF ATTACK ON COLONEL SALLAR MOHAMMED AMIN; SLV CARS ON FIRE WITH PEOPLE ON STREET (3 SHOTS) 0.25 2. SLV DAMAGED EMERGENCY VEHICLE; SLV CAR ON FIRE; SLV AMBULANCES AND PEOPLE ON SITE, SMOKE RISING INTO SKY; SLV CARS ON FIRE, SMOKE RISING INTO SKY (3 SHOTS) 0.39 3. MV WOUNDED SUFFERING FROM BURNS, BEING TREATED IN HOSPITAL (4 SHOTS) 1.09 (W3) NEAR BAGHDAD, IRAQ (JUNE 28, 2005) (REUTERS) 4. SLV SCENE OF BLAST/ IRAQI NATIONAL GUARDS; SLV BURNED OUT CAR AND VAN WITH PEOPLE AT SCENE (6 SHOTS) 1.52 5. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) SHEIKH EISSA AL-MUSAWI, A WITNESS, SAYING: "This morning while the Sheikh was leaving his house and forwarding to his work at the National Assembly, a car with one of the terrorists exploded, killing him and his son." 2.10 6. MV MORE OF BURNT OUT VAN AND CAR 2.18 (BN10) MUSAYYIB, IRAQ (JUNE 28, 2005) (REUTERS) 7. SLV DAMAGED TRUCKS PARKED OUTSIDE HOSPITAL; WIDE DAMAGED TRUCK WITH DOOR OPEN; MV CIVILIAN CAR WITH SMASHED WINDSCREEN; SLV ANOTHER DAMAGED CAR (4 SHOTS) 2.44 8. MV SIGN 'MUSAYYIB GENERAL HOSPITAL' 2.49 9. MV WOUNDED IN BEDS (VARIOUS) 3.09 10. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) HOSPITAL MEDICAL STAFF MEMBER SAYING: "At the start of the working day at around 0813 a.m. and in the peak of work hours and rush of patients, a terrorist bomber blew himself up in front of al-Musayyib hospital, killing one policeman and wounding around fourteen people from the hospital staff and patients." 3.33 11. MV DAMAGED HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT; HOSPITAL MEDICAL STAFF MEMBER STANDING NEAR CABINET 3.43 (BN09) SAMAWA , IRAQ (JUNE 28, 2005) (REUTERS) (NOTE SOME AUDIO DROPOUTS - AUDIO AS INCOMING) 12. SLV DEMONSTRATORS RUNNING DOWN STREET, CHANTING AND YELLING; SLV IRAQI NATIONAL GUARDS AND POLICE DEPLOYED IN STREET 4.10 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 14th July 2005 13:00
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  • Location: KIRKUK, NEAR BAGHDAD, MUSAYYIB, SAMAWA, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVADKL69B6AHOO46U5XES77EN8SZ
  • Story Text: Iraqi MP and senior policeman targeted by car bombs
    in a day of violence in Iraq.

    An Iraqi member of parliament was assassinated on
    Tuesday (June 28, 2005) after a car bomb was detonated by a
    suicide bomber near Baghdad. There were a number of other
    bombings in the country, targeting a senior police officer
    and a hospital.

    The head of the northern city of Kirkuk's traffic
    police, Colonel Sallar Mohammed Amin, survived the attack
    on him, but two of his guards were killed and five others
    suffered severe burns. A woman who was shopping in the area
    also suffered minor burns to her face and arms
    The attack happened in central Kirkuk, about 250 km
    (150 miles) north of Baghdad. Kurds, Arabs and Turkmen
    ethnic groups have staked competing claims to the capital
    of the big northern oilfield, which has seen frequent
    attacks in recent months.

    Meanwhile, a member of Iraq's parliament, three of his
    bodyguards and his son were killed by a suicide car bomb
    attack on their convoy in the northern outskirts of Baghdad.

    Dhari Ali al-Fayadh, a member of the ruling
    Shi'ite-dominated political alliance, was the second member
    of Iraq's newly elected parliament to be assassinated since
    the Shi'ite- and Kurdish-led government took office two
    months ago.

    "This morning while the Sheikh was leaving his house
    and forwarding to his work at the National Assembly, a car
    with one of the terrorists exploded, killing him and his
    son," said witness Sheikh Eissa al- Musawi.

    As well on Tuesday, a suicide bomber dressed in a
    police uniform blew himself up in front of a hospital in
    the town of Musayyib, 75 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad,
    killing three people and wounding 13, police said.

    A police spokesman said the bomber blew himself up at
    the police guard station near the entrance the hospital.

    One of those killed and four of the injured were police
    officers, he said.

    "At the start of the working day at around 0813 a.m.

    and in the peak of work hours and rush of patients, a
    terrorist bomber blew himself up in front of al-Musayyib
    hospital," said one of the hospital medical staff.

    Suicide bombings by attackers in police or military
    uniform have become an increasing threat in Iraq, where
    violence has worsened since the election of the new
    government.

    In the southern Iraqi city of Samawa police opened fire
    on a crowd of demonstrators on Tuesday, wounding seven
    protesters, including one man who was shot in the head.

    Four policemen were also injured by stones, doctors said.

    Nearly 2,000 unemployed Iraqis were demonstrating in
    central Samawa because they had not been given jobs. Samawa
    is 270 km (170 miles) south of Baghdad.


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