IRAQ: A child and two guards killed in attack on Iraqi school and suicide car bomber kills five Iraqi civilians

Record ID: 354640

  • Title: IRAQ: A child and two guards killed in attack on Iraqi school and suicide car bomber kills five Iraqi civilians
  • Date: 20th October 2005
  • Summary: (BN10) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (OCTOBER 20, 2005) (REUTERS) PEOPLE OUTSIDE SCHOOL BUILDING HIT BY MORTAR SHELL POLICE CARS IN STREET OUTSIDE SCHOOL "DIJLA PRIMARY SCHOOL" WRITTEN ON THE FACADE OF THE SCHOOL AND PEOPLE GATHERING OUTSIDE CRATER ON THE ROOF OF THE SCHOOL CRATER CRATER ON ROOF/CLASSROOM AND DAMAGED DESKS PEOPLE AND IRAQI ARMY WALKING THROUGH RUBBLE OF DAMAGED DESKS INS
  • Embargoed: 4th November 2005 12:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: War / Fighting
  • Reuters ID: LVA3CHGR9OOYHYNO53HN4XBZIMWI
  • Story Text: A child and two guards were killed and four children wounded when a mortar round landed on a school in the southern Mansour district of the capital on Thursday (October 20, 2005), police said.
    The mortar round hit the Dijla Primary School while children were inside.
    "A blast hit the school while children were in classes and children came down running and screaming. Blood, dust and scattered bags covered the area," said headmistress Wajida.
    Insurgents frequently fire mortars and rockets in the Green Zone, a fortified four kilometre square area of Baghdad, on the banks of the Tigris.
    In a separate incident, a suicide car bomber attacked a U.S. military convoy north of Baghdad on Thursday, killing five Iraqi civilians and injuring 13, police said.
    There was no immediate word on any U.S. casualties.
    The attack in Baquba, about 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, comes as Sunni Arab insurgents wage a bloody campaign against Iraq's U.S.-backed government.
    That attack raised to at least 1,985 the number of U.S. soldiers who have died in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion which toppled Saddam Hussein.
    In the northern city of Kirkuk, a secondary oil pipeline was set on fire when a bomb planted beside it exploded.
    The attack on the pipeline that feeds the route to Turkey has cut exports by 100,000 barrels per day (bpd) to 600,000 bpd, an Iraqi oil official said on Thursday.
    The attack was part of a campaign by insurgents to deprive the U.S.- backed government of badly-needed oil revenues.
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