IRAQ: U.S. Armoured vehicle destroyed by insurgents in Mosul

Record ID: 355142

  • Title: IRAQ: U.S. Armoured vehicle destroyed by insurgents in Mosul
  • Date: 30th March 2004
  • Summary: (W5) MOSUL, IRAQ (MARCH 28, 2004) (REUTERS) LV/GV: VARIOUS VIEWS OF STRYKER ARMOURED VEHICLE BURNING AFTER ATTACK (4 SHOTS)
  • Embargoed: 14th April 2004 13:00
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  • Location: MOSUL, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
  • Reuters ID: LVAFSEKNJRIGPRVSPGNEX0VJJBC
  • Story Text: Insurgents in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul attack and set on fire a U.S. military vehicle.
    Insurgents fired two rocket-propelled grenades at a U.S. military vehicle in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Sunday (March 28), setting it on fire, witnesses said.
    More blasts shook the wheeled Stryker armoured vehicle, apparently as its ammunition exploded. There was no immediate word on casualties in the attack in the west of the city.
    A passer-by, Mahmoud Ibrahim, 40, said he had seen three attackers in a car fire an RPG (rocket propelled grenade) at the Stryker as it went down a side street in a western district of Mosul. Another RPG was fired at the U.S. vehicle moments later.
    "I saw the Stryker burning," he said. "I saw nobody getting out of the vehicle."
    U.S. troops in other Strykers sealed off the area.
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