IRAQ: INSURGENT ATTACKS AGAINST IRAQI SECURITY FORCES AND FIGHTING BETWEEN U.S. FORCES AND INSURGENTS CLAIM AT LEAST SEVEN MORE LIVES

Record ID: 355749

  • Title: IRAQ: INSURGENT ATTACKS AGAINST IRAQI SECURITY FORCES AND FIGHTING BETWEEN U.S. FORCES AND INSURGENTS CLAIM AT LEAST SEVEN MORE LIVES
  • Date: 16th June 2005
  • Summary: (BN06) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (JUNE 16, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. LV IRAQI NATIONAL GUARDS VEHICLES ARRIVING SCENE OF BLAST 0.06 2. SLV MASKED GUARDSMEN NEAR DEBRIS OF CAR 0.14 3. SLV DEBRIS OF CAR 0.20 4. SLV POLICE VEHICLE LEAVING THE SCENE 0.28 (W3) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (JUNE 16, 2005) (REUTERS) 5. SLV EXTERIOR OF AL-YARMOUK HOSPITAL
  • Embargoed: 1st July 2005 13:00
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  • Location: BAGHDAD, RAMADI AND KIRKUK,IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA1P1IBPGI70JAW2T43WEWO8J7T
  • Story Text: Insurgent attacks against Iraqi security forces and
    fighting between U.S. forces and insurgents claim at least
    seven more lives.




    A car bomb aimed at a checkpoint in northern Baghdad
    exploded on Thursday (June 16, 2005), killing one Iraqi national
    guard and wounding six people, police said.

    Later a second car bomb exploded next to an Iraqi
    police commando convoy in western Baghdad, killing six
    police and wounding 25 others, police said.

    The second blast occurred on Baghdad's airport road,
    one of the most dangerous stretches in the country where
    roadside and suicide bombs are detonated almost every day.

    A source in the Iraqi Interior Ministry said most of
    those wounded were police.

    "We moved from al-Safarat (street) to shift with our
    colleagues. We managed to shift in a first checkpoint but
    in the second a car bomb exploded next to us. About four
    were killed and more than 20 wounded," an Iraqi soldier
    said.

    There has been a surge in suicide bombings and other
    attacks over the past seven weeks, since a new Shi'ite-led government was formed, with most of them targeting Iraqi
    security forces.

    Clashes flared up in the western town of Ramadi on
    Thursday; residents said five civilians were killed and
    five others were wounded.

    Ramadi is an insurgent stronghold 113 kilometers (70
    miles) west of Baghdad.

    Residents said that clashes started shortly before
    nightfall and continued for several hours. U.S. troops
    deployed to the centre of the city, taking firing positions
    in the streets and raiding Al-Sheikh Abdul Jaleel Mosque,
    where a mourning gathering was being held for five people
    killed by U.S. gunfire near a checkpoint in the town on
    Tuesday.

    Streets of the troubled town were almost empty on
    Thursday except for several masked gunmen and light
    traffic.

    A car bomb exploded at an Iraqi army checkpoint near
    the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Thursday (June 16),
    wounding four Iraqi soldiers.

    The blast took place at a checkpoint manned by Iraqi
    army west of Kirkuk, about 250 km (150 miles) north of
    Baghdad.

    An Iraqi army officer at the site of the attack told
    reporters four people were injured in the attack and that
    one of the wounded has sustained serious injuries.

    Kirkuk, where Kurds, Arabs and Turkmen ethnic groups
    have staked competing claims to the most important town in
    the area of big northern Iraqi oilfields, has been the
    scene of frequent attacks in recent months.

    In southwestern Baghdad on Thursday women dressed in
    black, some of them crying stood in a group on near the
    site where two mortar rounds landed on houses, killing at
    least five people on Wednesday (June 15).

    Around 1,000 people have been killed in insurgent
    violence since the government was formed in late April.


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