KUWAIT: GUNMEN HAVE KILLED TWO STATE SECURITY PERSONNEL/ UNITED STATES EMBASSY ISSUES WARNING
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338275
KUWAIT: GUNMEN HAVE KILLED TWO STATE SECURITY PERSONNEL/ UNITED STATES EMBASSY ISSUES WARNING
- Title: KUWAIT: GUNMEN HAVE KILLED TWO STATE SECURITY PERSONNEL/ UNITED STATES EMBASSY ISSUES WARNING
- Date: 12th January 2005
- Summary: (U6) KUWAIT CITY, KUWAIT (JANUARY 10, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. SLV SCENE OF SHOOTING, POLICE TAPED OFF AREA; MV RESCUE WORKER; SLV SECURITY OFFICERS 2. SLV CHECKS BEING MADE A CARS IN TAPED OFF AREA; SCU BULLET HOLE IN WINDOW PANE; SCU POOL OF BLOOD ON FLOOR; MV COVERED BODY ON GROUND 3. SECURITY OFFICER AT THE SCENE; POLICE CARS AND OTHER VEHICLES AT SCENE 1.58 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 27th January 2005 12:00
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- Location: KUWAIT CITY, KUWAIT
- Country: Kuwait
- Reuters ID: LVAB5R8TAS6WPY7XFCGYRCZFUUZS
- Story Text: Gunmen kill two in Kuwait and U.S. embassy issues
warning.
Gunmen killed two Kuwaiti state security personnel
pursuing them in Kuwait City on Monday (January 10, 2005), the
Interior Ministry and security sources said.
Security sources told Reuters that one of the suspects,
a wanted Kuwaiti man identified as Fawaz al-Otaibi, died
later in hospital of his wounds. Two state security
officers were wounded in the shootout.
Shortly before the incident, the U.S. embassy in Kuwait
warned that it had information of imminent drive-by attacks
on Westerners in the U.S.-allied Gulf Arab state.
In an advisory, the U.S. embassy said it was issuing
"this urgent message because it has received credible
information that an individual or individuals moving about
Kuwait in a black-coloured small sedan intend to randomly
attack Westerners".
The Interior Ministry said in a statement that a first
lieutenant and a sergeant were killed and two other
security personnel wounded in the exchange of fire with
Otaibi as they pursued him in the Hawalli suburb of Kuwait
City.
It said Otaibi had entered a shop in Hawalli and opened
fire at security personnel who followed him inside.
Otaibi then ran outside and got into a car where
accomplices were waiting. One of the passengers opened fire
on the security officers, killing two and wounding two, the
ministry added. Otaibi was also wounded.
Kuwaiti authorities have been cracking down on Islamic
militants opposed to the presence of U.S. forces in the
pro-Western country.
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