IRAQ: Two rockets fired at Mosul town hall killing two people and wounding thirteen

Record ID: 355141

  • Title: IRAQ: Two rockets fired at Mosul town hall killing two people and wounding thirteen
  • Date: 27th March 2004
  • Summary: SLV IMPACT OF ROCKET ON BLAST WALL WIDE OF EXTERIOR OF TOWN HALL WITH BLAST WALLS SMV ARMED POLICEMEN CARRYING PIECE OF SHRAPNEL/ CLOSE OF SHRAPNEL SLV POLICEMEN AND CAR OUTSIDE TOWN HALL SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) HEAD OF MOSUL CITY POLICE COLONEL SHAMEL AHMAD, SAYING: "At11.20 today a group of criminals fired a number of rockets from a locally-made rocket launcher at Nena
  • Embargoed: 11th April 2004 13:00
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  • Location: MOSUL, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVAEG8XGOQ6D2Z0ZLOMPTFRKSTMZ
  • Story Text: Insurgents fired two rockets at the city hall in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul killing two civilians and wounding 13 others including a child, police said.
    Insurgents fired two rockets at the city hall in Mosul on Saturday (March 27) killing two civilians and wounding 13 others including a child, police said.
    Colonel Shamil Ahmad, head of Mosul's city hall police department, said the rockets hit walls outside the hall at around 11:20 a.m. (0820 GMT).
    A child, two policemen and 10 other civilians were injured in the attack.
    Ahmad said at least three attackers launched two Katyusha rockets from a locally-made rocket launcher.
    Police found the launcher nearby, but nobody was arrested.
    U.S.-led forces in Iraq blame guerrilla attacks on Saddam Hussein supporters and Islamic militants. While the resistance is primarily Iraqi, U.S. officials say foreign fighters are increasingly involved in the insecurity prevailing acro
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