IRAQ: WOUNDED RECOVER IN HOSPITAL AFTER SUICIDE BOMBER KILLS FORTY SIX IN MOSQUE ATTACK

Record ID: 358572

  • Title: IRAQ: WOUNDED RECOVER IN HOSPITAL AFTER SUICIDE BOMBER KILLS FORTY SIX IN MOSQUE ATTACK
  • Date: 12th March 2005
  • Summary: (W2) MOSUL, IRAQ (MARCH 11, 2005)(REUTERS) 1. SLV PEOPLE STAND AROUND BLOWN OFF LEG 0.13 (W2)MOSUL, IRAQ (MARCH 11, 2005)(REUTERS) 2. SLV EXTERIOR OF HOSPITAL 0.19 3. MV OLD MAN WALKING THROUGH HOSPITAL WARD 0.26 4. MV MAN WITH BANDAGED HEAD IN HOSPITAL BED 0.32 5. MV MAN WITH BANDAGED HEAD AND BANDAGED LEG LYING I
  • Embargoed: 27th March 2005 13:00
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  • Location: MOSUL, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVAEF9R88CFMOGARADMGMXXR5OYA
  • Story Text: Wounded recover in hospital after suicide bomber
    kills 46 in attack on Mosul mosque.

    People were recovering in hospital on Friday (March
    11) after a suicide bomber struck a Shi'ite mosque during a
    funeral in the northern city of Mosul on Thursday (March
    10). At least 46 people were killed and dozens of people
    were wounded in the attack.

    Witnesses said the victims had come from various
    sections of Iraq's ethnically and religiously divided
    society and had been at the funeral to pay their respects.

    Police had put the toll at 30, but officials from the
    two main hospitals in Mosul, a city that has become a focus
    for U.S. efforts to defeat Iraq's insurgency, later said
    the toll had reached 46.

    Mainly Sunni Arab insurgents have staged increasingly
    audacious attacks on Shi'ite and official targets in their
    relentless campaign to topple the U.S.-backed government
    and stall efforts by the Shi'ite majority to form a new
    cabinet.

    Mosul, Iraq's third largest city, has seen a surge in
    violence since last November when coordinated guerrilla
    attacks on police forced them to desert.

    Tensions have risen in Iraq's north between the three
    main groups that populate the area, the Shi'ites, the Kurds
    and the Sunnis.


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