- Title: IRAQ: NINE PEOPLE KILLED IN STREET FIGHTING IN FALLUJA/ OIL PIPELINE SET ON FIRE
- Date: 26th March 2004
- Summary: (U4) FALLUJA, IRAQ (MARCH 26, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SLV STREET IN FALLUJA / AUDIO OF GUNFIRE 0.09 2. VARIOUS OF CHILDREN RUNNING FOR SHELTER / AUDIO OF GUNFIRE 0.18 3. SLV AMBULANCE DRIVING DOWN STREET 0.28 4. SLV PEOPLE STANDING OUTSIDE FALLUJA HOSPITAL 0.33 5. VARIOUS OF DOCTOR TREATING BOY FOR HEAD INJURIES / CHILD SCREAMING IN PAIN 0.53 6. VARIOUS OF DOCTOR TREATING MAN WITH WOUND TO HIS BACK 1.01 7. SLV / SCU MEN SEATED BY COFFIN IN TRUCK, CRYING 1.13 8. WIDE OF COFFIN IN TRUCK 1.19 9. VARIOUS OF SEVERAL TRUCKS CARRYING COFFINS PASS BY 1.36 10. WIDE VIEW U.S. SOLDIERS TAKING COVER 1.42 11. WIDE OF U.S. MILITARY VEHICLES IN STREET 1.49 (W5) FALLUJA, IRAQ (MARCH 26, 2004)(REUTERS-ACCESS ALL) 12. SLV U.S. TROOPS PATROLLING THE STREETS 1.57 13. VARIOUS U.S. MARINES ACTIVITY IN FALLUJA/ PATROLLING 2.19 14. VARIOUS OF BUILDING WITH BROKEN WINDOWS 2.28 15. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE ON THE STREETS BY MOSQUE /AUDIO OF PRAYER FROM MINERET 2.37 (U3) SHUAIBA, NEAR BASRA, IRAQ (MARCH 26, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 16. WIDE OF PEOPLE STANDING WATCHING THICK BLACK SMOKE POURING FROM OIL PIPELINE 2.42 17. WIDE OF FIRE AND SMOKE 2.49 18. SLV BRITISH SOLDIERS RUNNING ALONGSIDE THE SMOKE 3.03 19. VARIOUS OF SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS GATHERED AT THE SITE 3.18 20. VARIOUS OF SMOKE AND FLAMES AT THE SITE 3.46 21. WIDE OF BLACK SMOKE AND LINE OF BURNING OIL 3.57 22. CLOSE OF CLOUDS OF BLACK SMOKE 4.06 23. WIDE OF BURNING PIPE LINE 4.15 24. WIDE/ PAN FROM OIL POLLUTION TO BURNING PIPELINE 4.29 25. VARIOUS OF MORE OF SMOKE AND FLAMES 4.36 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: FALLUJA AND SHUAIBA, NEAR BASRA, IRAQ
- Country: Iraq
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- Story Text: Nine people killed amid fierce fighting with
insurgents in Falluja, crude oil pipeline is set on fire
near Basra.
U.S. forces fought running battles with insurgents
in the Iraqi town of Falluja on Friday (March 26) and a
television cameraman and eight civilians, including three
children were killed, a hospital official said.
Issam Mohammed, a doctor at the main Falluja hospital,
said 25 were wounded, including children, women and old
people.
Journalists covering the clashes said a cameraman
working for a foreign news organisation had been shot.
Doctors at the hospital said he died from his wounds.
Reuters television footage showed some of the casualties
being treated. A boy wounded in the head screamed in pain
as doctors bandaged him.
Several explosions, apparently from mortar bombs fired
by guerrillas echoed through the streets, which were
deserted apart from ambulances and U.S. military vehicles.
A mosque loudspeaker broadcast the call to Friday
prayers, but residents had to stay in their homes.
Bystanders said U.S. troops had come under attack when they
entered the town's Hay al-Askari neighbourhood. They sealed
off the area and conducted house-to-house searches.
Soldiers carried out a similar operation in the Hay
al-Shuhada district.
U.S. troops turned back reporters trying to reach the
town, where explosions and heavy gunfire could be heard
from the outskirts.
Falluja, about 60 km (37 miles) west of Baghdad, is
known for its fierce hostility to the U.S.-led occupation.
The U.S. military in Baghdad said it had no information
about the fighting in the mostly Sunni Muslim town.
Meanwhile a secondary crude oil pipeline feeding
southern Iraqi export terminals was set on fire by
saboteurs on Friday (March 26).
Iraqi guards on duty at Shuaiba, an area near the city
of Basra, said saboteurs ignited oil that leaked from the
pipeline as they waited for fire fighters to arrive on the
scene.
A pipeline network fed from southern oilfields passes
through Shuaiba on the way to Gulf export terminals.
British soldiers were on the scene as huge flames and
clouds of smoke rose into the air.
The British army, which is in charge of multinational
divisions occupying Iraq's south, said there were no
explosives involved in the incident.
A military spokesman said they understood that a
pipeline valve had failed and fire broke out from the
spillage.
Iraq's mostly Muslim Shi'ite south has been largely
spared sabotage that hampered plans to rebuild the oil
industry and raise exports from the north.
But an attack on the north-south crude oil pipeline
near the holy city of Kerbala last month raised concern
over oil infrastructure security in the south.
An explosion damaged another oil pipeline in southern
Iraq on Wednesday (March 24) but the main crude export link
to the Basra oil terminal was not affected, officials said,
adding that a technical fault was likely behind the
explosion.
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