IRAQ: GRENADE ATTACK OUTSIDE ARMY RECRUITMENT CENTRE WOUNDS 17 IRAQIS

Record ID: 355707

  • Title: IRAQ: GRENADE ATTACK OUTSIDE ARMY RECRUITMENT CENTRE WOUNDS 17 IRAQIS
  • Date: 5th June 2004
  • Summary: MOSUL, IRAQ (JUNE 5, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. VARIOUS SITE OF ATTACK OUTSIDE RECRUITMENT CENTRE/ RECRUITMENT SIGN 0.13 2. SLV MAN STANDING AT SITE 0.19 3. VARIOUS BLOOD STAINS ON THE GROUND 0.25 4. SLV ONLOOKERS 0.31 5. SMV SECURITY 0.37 6. WIDE OF EXTERIOR HOSPITAL 0.43 7. VARIOUS WOUNDED INSIDE HOSPITAL 0.50
  • Embargoed: 20th June 2004 13:00
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  • Location: MOSUL, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA5MWFZMLRJYP9BQRWFK1PEINMI
  • Story Text: Grenade attack on job seekers wounds 17 Iraqis.



    Guerrillas fired rocket-propelled grenades at Iraqis
    queuing up outside an army recruitment centre in the
    northern city of Mosul on Saturday (June 5, 2004), wounding 17
    people in the second such attack in a month.

    Guards said the attackers fired the grenades from a car
    before driving away.

    Last month a mortar attack on the recruiting centre
    killed four people and wounded at least 15.

    Anti-American guerrillas have frequently targeted
    Iraqis joining new, U.S.-supervised security forces such as
    the police.

    Saddam Hussein's 375,000-strong armed forces were
    disbanded after their defeat last year. But in anticipation
    of a return of sovereignty to an Iraqi interim government
    on June 30, U.S. commanders are overseeing recruitment to a
    new army.


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