IRAQ: AT LEAST 10 PEOPLE WOUNDED IN ATTACK ON IRAQI SECURITY PATROL NORTH OF BADHDAD

Record ID: 355695

  • Title: IRAQ: AT LEAST 10 PEOPLE WOUNDED IN ATTACK ON IRAQI SECURITY PATROL NORTH OF BADHDAD
  • Date: 29th January 2004
  • Summary: (W4) BAQUBA, IRAQ (JANUARY 29, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. SLV/SV/CU OF CORDONED OFF AREA/ DAMAGED TRUCK/ CIVIL DEFENCE MEMBERS BY TRUCK; DAMAGED TRUCK (4 SHOTS) 0.19 2. CU DAMAGED ROAD WHERE CIVIL DEFENCE PATROL MEMBERS WERE ATTACKED/ PAN TO WIDE OF SITE 0.31 3. SLV/SV INTERIOR OF HOSPITAL WHERE MEMBERS OF IRAQI CIVIL DEFENCE FORCES ARE BEING TREAT
  • Embargoed: 13th February 2004 12:00
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  • Location: BAQUBA, KHARNABAT AND BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA816HDGLXZJ3Z4XL888DQPR5XW
  • Story Text: At least 10 people wounded in attack on Iraqi
    security patrol north of Baghdad.



    Thursday (January 29) morning's blast struck
    members of the Iraqi Civil Defence Force as they conducted
    an early morning patrol through the restive town of Baquba,
    65 km (40 miles) north of the Iraqi capital.

    Police said the blast was caused by a remotely
    detonated explosive device placed on a cart selling diesel
    fuel. Doctors said at least 10 people were injured, two of
    them seriously.

    The Baquba blast is the latest in a string of attacks
    against Iraqi security forces operating in the town, which
    sits to the east of an area known as the Sunni triangle,
    the hotbed of the 10-month insurgency against the U.S.-led
    occupation. As U.S. forces have ratcheted up strikes
    against suspected insurgents in recent months, guerrillas
    have increasingly targeted the Iraqi police, the Civil
    Defence Force and other U.S.-backed security teams seen as
    easier targets.

    Since May 1 last year, when President George W. Bush
    declared major combat over in Iraq, more than 300 Iraqi
    policemen have been killed in shootings, bombings or
    suicide attacks, according to Iraq's interior ministry.

    Shortly after the attack in Baquba, a police station in
    nearby Kharnabat, fifteen kilometres north of Baquba, was
    destroyed in an explosion. Witnesses said no one was
    injured.

    One man at the scene said that windows in nearby houses
    had been shattered in the blast.

    "Does this act serve an honest man?", he said.

    Two weeks ago a suspected suicide bomber blew up his
    vehicle outside a police station in the town, killing
    several bystanders. Late in 2003, twin suicide bomb attacks
    on police stations in Baquba and a nearby town killed more
    than a dozen.

    Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, the overall
    commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, said they did not know
    the identity of the successful suicide bombers but those
    they had prevented were mostly foreigners.


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