IRAQ: Truck bomb knocks Baghdad TV station off air

Record ID: 352946

  • Title: IRAQ: Truck bomb knocks Baghdad TV station off air
  • Date: 6th April 2007
  • Summary: (W3) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (APRIL 5, 2007) (REUTERS) SITE WHERE TRUCK BOMB EXPLODED NEXT TO BAGHDAD TV STATION MORE OF AFTERMATH OF BLAST DAMAGED CAR/WRECKED TRUCK TV STATION BUILDING VARIOUS OF SMOULDERING CARS SMOULDERING CARS/U.S. SOLDIERS U.S. TROOPS AT SITE OF BLAST U.S. SOLDIER TAKING COVER BEHIND DAMAGED CAR VARIOUS OF U.S. SOLDIERS AT SITE OF ATTACK VARIOUS OF SMOULDERIN
  • Embargoed: 21st April 2007 13:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
  • Reuters ID: LVA1I9ZYAJ3651B6WHIENWD4PRAZ
  • Story Text: A Baghdad satellite television station run by Iraq's biggest Sunni political party briefly went off the air on Thursday (April 5) after a suicide truck bomb attack that killed one person and wounded 10.
    After an interruption lasting about 30 minutes, the channel resumed broadcasting. It said the assistant to the station manager had been killed and 10 members of staff wounded, four seriously.
    The bomb exploded a few metres from the television station in Jamiaa district in western Baghdad, setting nearby cars ablaze.
    Iraqi journalists are frequent targets of attack amid deepening sectarian violence between Sunni Arabs and Shi'ites that has cost tens of thousands of lives.
    In January 2006, a Baghdad TV journalist was killed while filming an attack by U.S. forces in Ramadi. Gunmen shot dead a presenter and another employee in two separate incidents in the same year.
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