IRAQ: CAR BOMB EXPLODES NEAR A U.S. CONVOY IN BAGHDAD / U.S. TROOPS BLOW UP MINE IN CONTROLLED EXPLOSION IN MASHAHDEH

Record ID: 358623

  • Title: IRAQ: CAR BOMB EXPLODES NEAR A U.S. CONVOY IN BAGHDAD / U.S. TROOPS BLOW UP MINE IN CONTROLLED EXPLOSION IN MASHAHDEH
  • Date: 11th June 2004
  • Summary: (W4) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (JUNE 11, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. AREA AFTER CAR BOMB EXPLODED NEAR U.S. CONVOY IN BAGHDAD 0.06 2. U.S. TROOP AND IRAQI POLICE AT SITE 0.10 3. U.S. TROOPS LOOKING AT WRECKAGE OF CAR WHICH BLEW UP 0.15 4. VARIOUS OF TROOPS AND POLICE AT SITE (2 SHOTS) 0.26 5. U.S. HELICOPTER GUNSHIP FLYING OVERHEAD 0.32 6
  • Embargoed: 26th June 2004 13:00
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  • Location: BAGHDAD AND MASHAHDEH, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA2K5G7NO0J43I4CJ3D26RC6AYN
  • Story Text: Car bomb explodes near U.S. convoy in Baghdad/U.S.

    troops blow up mine in a controlled explosion near Baghdad.


    A car bomb exploded near a U.S. convoy on a Baghdad
    highway on Friday (June 11), but it was not immediately
    clear if there were any American casualties.

    U.S. military vehicles sealed off the six-lane highway
    cutting through the Saydiya residential district in western
    Baghdad. The U.S. military had no immediate comment.

    An Iraqi witness said he had noticed a man spending a
    long time apparently trying to repair a grey Mercedes at
    the roadside before being picked up by another man in an
    Opel saloon.

    Earlier, troops blew up a landmine in a controlled
    explosion near Baghdad.

    Insurgents frequently target U.S. convoys with roadside
    bombs, car bombs, landmines or rocket-propelled grenades.

    The U.S. military said on Friday an American soldier
    had died of wounds sustained in an attack in eastern
    Baghdad on Wednesday. That raised the U.S. combat death
    toll in Iraq to 606 since the start of last year's invasion.

    CLV/JRC



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