- Title: LIBERIA: AT LEAST SIX KILLED IN MORTAR ATTACKS IN MONROVIA
- Date: 26th July 2003
- Summary: (U4) MONROVIA, LIBERIA (JULY 26, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. CLOSE OF WRAPPED BODY ON STREET 0.04 2. SLV MEN LEADING A WOUNDED WOMAN 0.14 3. WIDE OF BODIES ON THE STREET 0.18 4. SLV MEN ENTERING HOUSE WITH BODIES STREWN IN FRONT OF IT 0.24 5. VARIOUS OF MEN RUNNING IN THE STREET 0.32 6. SLV MAN CARRYING GUN, PAS
- Embargoed: 10th August 2003 13:00
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- Location: MONROVIA, LIBERIA
- Country: Liberia
- Reuters ID: LVA2M9FP3VNQYKLIVHFHK4LHOWHX
- Story Text: At least six people have been killed and thirty injured
in a mortar attack on a church in Liberia's capital Monrovia.
A mortar crashed into a church housing refugees near
the centre of Liberia's capital Monrovia on Saturday (26
July), killing at least six people. At least 30 others were
seriously wounded and were brought to the main hospital from
the church.
The mortar attack came despite a ceasefire declared by the
rebels on Friday (25 July), shortly after U.S. President
George W. Bush said he had ordered U.S. troops to take up
positions off the West African country's coast. It will take
the troops, however, at least a week to arrive.
The rebels and forces loyal to President Charles Taylor
have been battling for more than a week for control of the
coastal capital as West African states discuss deploying
peacekeepers.
Liberians believe the United States has a moral obligation
to save a country founded by freed American slaves that has
been crippled by nearly 14 years of almost non-stop civil war.
Fighting on Friday marked a bloody escalation in the
seesaw battle for Monrovia which started last weekend as
rebels bent on toppling Taylor launched their third assault
since June.
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