IRAQ: UNITED STATES FORCES AND IRAQ POLICE BLOCK OFF STREETS AND DETONATE BOMB PLANTED NEAR HOUSES

Record ID: 337997

  • Title: IRAQ: UNITED STATES FORCES AND IRAQ POLICE BLOCK OFF STREETS AND DETONATE BOMB PLANTED NEAR HOUSES
  • Date: 2nd August 2004
  • Summary: (W4) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (JULY 31, 2004)(REUTERS) 1. SLV STREET WHERE ROADSIDE BOMB HAS BEEN PLANTED BY INSURGENTS; CLOUD OF FIRE AND SMOKE RISES AS BOMB DETONATES 0.17 2. SLV IRAQI POLICE CAR BLOCKING STREET WHERE BOMB DETONATED 0.33 3. SCU CRATER IN ROAD UPPER WINDOW OF HOUSE WHICH HAS BEEN SMASHED BY THE BLAST; SMASHED LOWER WINDOW OF HOUSE; CHILDREN IN AREA 0.51 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 17th August 2004 13:00
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  • Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA8N0C3P92VT7RZZ9AWATRYYMH
  • Story Text: U.S. forces and Iraqi police block off streets in a
    Baghdad neighbourhood and detonate a bomb planted near
    houses.

    U.S. forces blocked a street in the Baladiyat neighbourhood
    of Baghdad on Saturday (July 31, 2004) to detonate a bomb planted
    near houses.

    Residents said U.S. forces and Iraqi police tried to
    defuse the bomb and when they failed they closed the street
    and blew it up.

    The blast created a huge smoke cloud and a crater in
    the ground. The force of the blast also smashed windows in
    nearby houses.

    U.S. forces usually use a remote controlled machine to
    defuse explosives planted on streets.

    Roadside bombs are a favourite weapon used by
    insurgents to attack U.S. forces.
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