- Title: IRAQ: GOVERNORS OFFICE IN FALLUJA SET ALIGHT AFTER POLICE SHOOT DEAD LOCAL MAN.
- Date: 1st November 2003
- Summary: (U4) FALLUJA, IRAQ (OCTOBER 31, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV: VARIOUS OF SMOKE RISING FROM GOVERNORS OFFICE BUILDING (AUDIO GUNFIRE), MEN RUNNING ((2 SHOTS) 0.13 2. LV: VARIOUS FLAMES RISING FROM BURNING POLICE CAR 0.19 3. GV: CAR BURNING IN FRONT OF SMOKING BUILDING (3 SHOTS) 0.35 4. GV: SMOKE RISING AS CAR DRIVES PAST 0.41 5. GV: POLICE GATHERED NEAR SCENE (AUDIO GUNFIRE) 0.50 6. GV: MEN WATCHING SMOKE RISING 0.55 (W5) FALLUJA, IRAQ (OCTOBER 31, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 7. GV/ZOOM IN: PEOPLE THROWING STONES AT THE GOVERNORATE BUILDING 1.03 8. GV/GV/PAN: VARIOUS OF PEOPLE RUNNING AS GUNSHOTS FIRED BY IRAQI POLICE INSIDE THE BUILDING (3 SHOTS) 1.21 9. GV: VARIOUS OF U.S. TROOPS IN MILITARY VEHICLES DEPLOYING AT THE GOVERNORATE; PEOPLE LOOKING ON (4 SHOTS) 1.49 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 16th November 2003 12:00
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- Location: FALLUJA, IRAQ
- Country: Iraq
- Reuters ID: LVA8XU1OHNZ4P74WTHXCQ7GZPI2Z
- 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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