IRAQ: ONE UNITED STATES SOLDIER AND FOUR IRAQIS HAVE BEEN KILLED WHEN A BOMB EXPLODED ON A BUSY ROAD

Record ID: 338334

  • Title: IRAQ: ONE UNITED STATES SOLDIER AND FOUR IRAQIS HAVE BEEN KILLED WHEN A BOMB EXPLODED ON A BUSY ROAD
  • Date: 6th December 2003
  • Summary: (U3) BAGHDAD (AL-JADEDAH DISTRICT), IRAQ (NOVEMBER 5, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. SLV U.S. HUMVEES DRIVING DOWN ROAD 0.08 2. MV IRAQIS GATHERED AT SITE WHERE BOMB EXPLODED IN MIDDLE OF ROAD; SCU CARDBOARD COVERING POOL OF BLOOD ON GROUND; MV IRAQIS GATHERED AROUND CRATER IN GROUND CREATED FROM EXPLOSION (4 SHOTS) 0.26 3. SLV DEBRIS/ IRAQI MAN CLEANING UP SHATTERED GLASS; SCU BROKEN GLASS; SLV SHATTERED WINDOWS IN BUILDING NEAR BLAST; MV WOMAN SWEEPING UP GLASS; SCU POOL OF BLOOD ON GROUND (10 SHOTS) 1.27 4. SOUNDITE (Arabic) EYEWITNESS SAYING "Suddenly a bomb went off. I came running to rescue people. I saw one whose brain was blown off. We carried them and put them in police car. The Americans were injured too, but most of the injured were Iraqis who were in a mini bus. The Americans came and took their injured and left." 1.49 5. MV MAN SWEEPING UP GLASS IN FRONT OF SHOP 1.55 (W4) BAGHDAD (AL-JADEDAH DISTRICT), IRAQ (DECEMBER 5, 2003) (REUTERS) 6. SLV MINI BUS INVOLVED IN ATTACK HAVING BEEN TOWED A LITTLE WAY AWAY FROM SCENE/ SHRAPNEL HOLES; SCU SHRAPNEL HOLES ON SIDE OF MINI BUS; SCU DAMAGE TO THE MINI BUS/ SMASHED WINDOWS (5 SHOTS) 2.14 7. SCU BLOOD STAIN ON GROUND NEAR MINI BUS; SLV BLOOD INSIDE MINI BUS 2.31 8. MV INJURED MEN IN BEDS AT HOSPITAL; SCU INJURED WOMAN IN HOSPITAL (4 SHOTS) 2.49 9. SCU RELATIVE OF DEAD MAN CRYING OUTSIDE HOSPITAL; LAS SIGN READING "NEUROLOGICAL HOSPITAL" 2.59 10. SLV EXTERIOR OF HOSPITAL/ AMBULANCE NEAR THE GATE 3.03 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 21st December 2003 12:00
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  • Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVAEJNMFPFWZ2QXP0FMQUBS1TB1V
  • Story Text: One U.S. soldier and four Iraqis killed when bomb
    explodes on busy Baghdad road.

    A bomb exploded in the middle of a busy Baghdad
    road on Friday (December 5, 2003), killing one American soldier
    and at least four Iraqis as a military convoy and a packed
    minibus passed in opposite directions, police and witnesses
    said.

    They said 16 Iraqis were also wounded in the attack,
    one of three bombings in or near Baghdad on U.S. convoys on
    Friday. There were no immediate reports of casualties in
    the other two.

    The U.S. military said in a statement that the device
    exploded between the first and second vehicles of the
    convoy, killing one soldier.

    "Suddenly a bomb went off. I came running to rescue
    people. I saw one whose brain was blown off. We carried
    them and put them in police car. The Americans were injured
    too, but most of the injured were Iraqis who were in a mini
    bus. The Americans came and took their injured and left,"
    one witness said.

    The minibus was badly damaged in the blast, with all
    its windows blown out. Pools of blood were visible on the
    floor of the wreckage. Witnesses said the front vehicle of
    the U.S. military convoy was also hit.

    The Iraqi casualties were rushed to several hospitals
    in the capital.

    More than 180 U.S. soldiers have been killed in action
    in Iraq since Washington declared major combat over on May
    1. During that period, scores of Iraqis have also been
    killed in almost daily assaults by anti-American insurgents.


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