IRAQ: HOSPITAL IN TIKRIT TREATS WOUNDED FROM SHOOTING INCIDENT WHERE U.S. TROOPS KILLED TWO IRAQIS SELLING WEAPONS ON STREET.

Record ID: 324534

  • Title: IRAQ: HOSPITAL IN TIKRIT TREATS WOUNDED FROM SHOOTING INCIDENT WHERE U.S. TROOPS KILLED TWO IRAQIS SELLING WEAPONS ON STREET.
  • Date: 9th August 2003
  • Summary: (EU) TIKRIT, IRAQ (AUGUST 8, 2003) (REUTERS- ACCESS ALL) 1. MV: IRAQI DOCTORS INSPECTING PATIENTS 0.06 2. MV/CU: IRAQI POLICEMAN QUESTIONING PATIENT; ANOTHER IRAQI POLICEMAN QUESTIONING A 14-YEAR OLD BOY; CLOSE UP BOY WITH CHEST INJURIES (4 SHOTS) 0.28 3. CU; CLOSE UP MEDICINE ON CABINET 0.33 4. MCU/GV/CU: ANOTHER YOUNG BOY WITH HEAD WOUNDS, TALKING TO DOCTOR; CLOSE UP BOY WITH LEG INJURIES (3 SHOTS) 0.47 5. MCU: (SOUNDBITE) (English) MOHAMMED AL-JIBOURI, SAYING: "At 8 AM (0400gmt) when I am on duty I receive, five, six people injured one of them had a difficult injury in the head and died after about 20 minutes after he reached the hospital. The other five, the injury was not so severe and transferred to the floor after the assessment of their condition and (inaudible)." 1.23 6. MV: U.S ARMY MEDIC DR. WILLIAM MAZULLO CHECKING X-RAY; DR. WILLIAM WATCHING IRAQI DOCTOR EXAMINE PATIENT (2 SHOTS) 1.34 7. MCU;(SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) GHABASH HAMZEH KHADIM, LYING IN HOSPITAL BED, SAYING: "They opened fire at us, two three were hurt." 1.50 8. MV/PAN: SOLDIERS IN THE HOSPITAL CORRIDOR, DR. WILLIAM EXITS WARD 1.59 9. MCU; (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S ARMY MEDIC DR. WILLIAM MAZULLO, SAYING: "Well as far as the mission went, I can't speak for that, as a physician I can only speak for what I have observed in the hospital. The four perpetrators, or victims, whatever you want to call them, look like they received excellent care, they all look like they are in stable condition and we should expect their recovery soon." 2.18 10. MV/CU: INJURED MAN IN HOSPITAL BED; WOUNDED LEG; MEDICATION (2 SHOTS) 2.27 11. CU/MV: MEDICATION; ANOTHER WOUNDED MAN, HIS SON STANDING NEXT TO HOSPITAL BED (2 SHOTS) 2.37 12. GV/PAN: IRAQI CIVILIAN AND SON LEAVING HOSPITAL 2.44 13. GV/LV: HOSPITAL EXTERIOR (2 SHOTS) 2.54 14. GV/CU: SMALL CROWD OF IRAQIS LOOKING AT SITE OF SHOOTING; CLOSE UP BLOOD STAIN ON THE SAND (3 SHOTS) 3.07 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 24th August 2003 13:00
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  • Location: TIKRIT, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA9ZSZP69AGJCXWH9HA8WM007FO
  • Story Text: A Tikrit hospital treats six people who may have
    been wounded in same incident in which U.S. forces said
    they killed two Iraqis selling weapons on the street

    U.S. forces said they killed two Iraqis on Friday
    (August 8) who were selling weapons on the streets in
    Saddam Hussein's home town, Tikrit.

    A third was captured at a hospital where he was being
    treated for wounds and a fourth, also believed to be
    wounded, was on the run, Lieutenant-Colonel Steve Russell
    said.

    Doctors at a local hospital told Reuters they had
    treated six people, all male, whom they believed were hit
    in the same early morning incident. One of them soon died
    of a head wound.

    It was not clear if he was one of those accused by the
    Americans of trying to sell weapons.

    At the hospital, U.S. troops were guarding two of the
    wounded, a man of about 35, and a boy in his early teens.

    The identities of those killed and wounded were not
    available.

    Speaking to the media outside the hospital, U.S. Army
    medic Dr. William Mazullo said the wounded appeared to be
    in stable condition and "should expect their recovery soon".

    On a street downtown, Reuters cameraman Miran Jelenek
    saw the body of one man, draped in a sheet, next to a pool
    of blood. A red car, which troops said had been carrying
    Kalashnikov rifles and explosives, had windows shattered by
    gunfire and bloodstains on the seats.

    Russell, who commands the 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry
    Regiment in the town, 170 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad,
    said his troops had had the area under discreet observation
    after a tip about arms trading from local people through
    Iraqi police.

    When the four men began unloading weapons and what
    appeared to be the elements for making bombs, U.S. soldiers
    opened fire.

    U.S. forces in the area have been conducting an
    aggressive policy of raiding and capturing or killing
    people they believe are carrying out guerrilla attacks on
    troops. They blame die-hard Saddam loyalists for most of
    the violence in the area.




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