- Title: IRAQ: SENIOR IRAQ POLICEMAN ASSASSINATED / CAR BOMB INJURES FIVE
- Date: 3rd June 2005
- Summary: (BN10) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (JUN 03, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. WIDE OF HUMVEE AT SCENE OF EXPLOSION 0.02 2. VARIOUS WRECKAGE OF THE SMOKING CAR BOMB 0.14 3. WIDE OF THE STREET 0.19 4. CLOSE OF U.S. SOLDIER IN HUMVEE 0.25 5. SLV MORE SMOULDERING WRECKAGE 0.31 6. CLOSE OF BLOODSTAINS 0.37 7. SCU (SOUNDBITE)(Arabic) OMAR S
- Embargoed: 18th June 2005 13:00
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- Location: BAGHDAD, BALAD, KIRKUK, IRAQ
- Country: Iraq
- Reuters ID: LVAEA1TUHQ2N8G6DLR5RYPP8N7K1
- Story Text: Car bomb near U.S convoy inures five, Senior Iraqi
policeman is assassinated in Kirkuk .
Four Iraqi civilians were injured in a car bomb
attack on a U.S. military convoy in Baghdad on Friday (Jun
3, 2005), witnesses said.
They said the device exploded as the convoy approached
in the Amiriyah district of the city but failed to hit its
intended target.
"There was traffic in the street as usual and suddenly a
car exploded. One of us was wounded and the others are ok.
The U.S. military convoy was driving past here (points) and
it stopped here (points) when the bomb exploded. Nothing
happened to them (the U.S.)," said Omar Salim, an employee
at a restaurant close to the scene of the blast.
There was no immediate comment from the U.S. military.
In Kirkuk unknown gunmen shot dead a senior Iraqi
policeman, police said .
Police said that Colonel Sabah Qara-altoun was killed
by gunmen as he was leaving a mosque in central Kirkuk
after Friday prayers .
Qara-altoun was a Turkmen who was the official in
charge of tribal affairs in the city.
Near Balad a suicide car bomber rammed his car into a
building killing at least 10 people and wounding 12, the
U.S. military said.
The attack occurred late on Thursday in a village south
of the town of Balad, about 80 km (50 miles) north of
Baghdad, a U.S. military spokesman said. The information
had come from Iraqi authorities in the area.
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