IRAQ: Police says Baghdad bombing, shooting attack kills nineteen

Record ID: 357976

  • Title: IRAQ: Police says Baghdad bombing, shooting attack kills nineteen
  • Date: 16th May 2006
  • Summary: (W3) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (MAY 16, 2006) (REUTERS) WIDE SHOT EXTERIOR OF CAR PARK; BURNED OUT BUSES; VARIOUS OF BURNED OUT BUSES AND CARS; WRECKAGE OF CAR (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) ALI AHMED, POLICEMAN AT THE SITE, SAYING : "There were gunmen here who shot five people. We arrived at the site and we found the five bodies. People gathered at the site , we were advising people to move
  • Embargoed: 31st May 2006 13:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
  • Reuters ID: LVA3RG2FLOONBM4SJWDXFTUUH8AW
  • Story Text: Nineteen people were killed in a shooting and bombing attack at a bus garage in eastern Baghdad on Tuesday (May 16), police said.
    Gunmen shot five Shi'ite militiamen.
    When a crowd gathered at the scene a car bomb detonated, killing 14 people and wounding 33.
    "There were gunmen here who shot five people. We arrived at the site and we found the five bodies. People gathered at the site , we were advising people to move from the area, I went to get an ambulance and when I arrived the market close to here the car exploded ," said Ali Ahmed, a policeman at the site.
    On Sunday (May 14), a series of car and suicide bombs across the capital killed more than 30 people.
    Militants from the Sunni Arab minority are waging an insurgency against the Shi'ite-led government and its U.S. backers. END
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