- Title: IRAQ: SIX IRAQI GUARDSMEN KILLED IN CAR BOMB ATTACK
- Date: 3rd August 2004
- Summary: (W5) BAQUBA, IRAQ (AUGUST 3, 2004)(REUTERS-ACCESS ALL) 1. WIDE OF U.S. MILITARY VEHICLES AT SITE OF THE BLAST 0.05 2. PAN TO FIRE FIGHTER ENGINES AT SITE OF THE BLAST 0.14 3. SLV GUARDSMAN WITH BURNS TO HIS FACE ENTERING HOSPITAL WARD 0.23 4. VARIOUS OF WOUNDED GUARDS AT BAQUBA HOSPITAL 0.40 5. PAN OF LEGS OF WOUNDED GUARDS
- Embargoed: 18th August 2004 13:00
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- Location: BAQUBA, IRAQ
- Country: Iraq
- Reuters ID: LVA4MYQP1SWM60V12ODVSOVY3EVT
- Story Text: Six Iraqi guardsmen were killed in a car bomb attack
at a checkpoint north of Baghdad.
A car bomb exploded at a checkpoint north of
Baghdad on Tuesday (August 3), killing three Iraqi national
guardsmen and wounding four others, the U.S. military said.
Major Deborah Stewart of the 1st Infantry Division said
the attack occurred just outside the town of Baquba, 65 km
(40 miles) north of Baghdad, at around 2.30 p.m. (1030 GMT).
Stewart said the wounded were evacuated by 1st Infantry
Division soldiers to a nearby hospital.
Baquba has been the scene of numerous militant strikes
in recent months, including a suicide car bomb attack last
week that killed 70 people, many of them young men lining
up to join the police force.
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