IRAQ: Gunmen killed 12 Iraqi construction workers in the town of Mussayab, south of Baghdad and saboteurs set an oil pipeline on fire near Kirkuk

Record ID: 354631

  • Title: IRAQ: Gunmen killed 12 Iraqi construction workers in the town of Mussayab, south of Baghdad and saboteurs set an oil pipeline on fire near Kirkuk
  • Date: 24th October 2005
  • Summary: CLOSE OF FRACTURED / BURNING PIPELINE WITH SMOKE
  • Embargoed: 8th November 2005 12:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Domestic Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA25MY5VJ7DME678YSPVYGVVKKC
  • Story Text: Gunmen killed 12 Iraqi construction workers on Sunday (October 23) during an attack in the town of Mussayab, south of Baghdad. A police source said the attackers, who arrived in two cars, also kidnapped the contractor who had hired the workers.
    On Monday (October 24), a child was killed and two civilians were wounded in a car bomb in Baghdad's northern district of al-Shaab, witnesses said. They said that the driver of the car fired at the policemen and the policemen returned fire, blowing up the car.
    "The car bomb stopped there and when the policemen approached it, he (the driver of the car) fired at them and the police returned fire, blowing up the car. A little child was killed and civilian cars damaged," said Raad, an eyewitness.
    Iraqi army and police rushed to the area, blocking off the roads to the blast site.
    An oil source said on Monday (October 24) that there was an explosion at a complex of oil pipelines in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, halting oil exports to Ceyhan in Turkey. They said saboteurs fired three rocket propelled grenades at the pipeline in Safra 50 km (37 miles) west of Kirkuk.
    On Sunday (October 23) four sabotage blasts brought oil exports from northern Iraq to a halt and it could take up to one month for repairs, an oil official said. The northern pipeline only recently resumed exports to Turkey's Ceyhan port after repairs following sabotage. The pipeline, which was designed to carry more than 1.5 million bpd, has been closed for most of the post-U.S. invasion era due to sabotage. It runs through Arab Sunni areas hostile to American forces and the U.S. backed government.
    The past 10 days have seen a relative lull in violence despite a constitutional referendum on October 15 and the start of Saddam Hussein's trial for crimes against humanity.
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