- Title: IRAQ: TWO CAR BOMBS KILL FOUR
- Date: 29th May 2005
- Summary: (BN10) TUZ KHURMATU, IRAQ (MAY 29, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. ZOOM INTO FIRE TRUCK AND POLICEMEN ON SITE 0.10 2. CLOSE OF WRECKAGE OF CAR BOMB 0.17 3. SLV IRAQI SOLDIERS LOOKING AT WRECKAGE 0.26 4. CLOSE OF REMAINS OF CAR BOMB 0.32 5. SLV IRAQI POLICEMEN AND SOLDIERS EXAMINING SITE OF BLAST 0.45 6. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic)
- Embargoed: 13th June 2005 13:00
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- Location: TUZ KHURMATU AND BAGHDAD, IRAQ
- Country: Iraq
- Reuters ID: LVA9YU1SF7B529N5BPW764OP85G5
- Story Text: Two civilians killed in car bomb attack near U.S
convoy north of Baghdad and two guardsmen killed when
another car bomb explodes near Oil Ministry in Baghdad.
A suicide bomber blew up his vehicle next to a U.S.
military convoy in the northern mixed Kurdish-Turkoman town
of Tuz Kharmatu on Sunday (May 29), killing two civilians
and wounding eight other civilians, hospital sources said.
They said a suicide bomber drove his car near the
convoy and detonated it as it was driving on the main road
in the town, some 70 km (45 miles) south of the northern
oil-rich city of Kirkuk.
They said two labourers, who were working on the side
of the road, were killed in the blast and eight bystanders
were wounded. A civilian truck was damaged in the blast.
"A bomb transported by a car driving on the main road
exploded, killing two labourers who were working on the
road and wounded three others. The blast happened at 0900
o'clock this morning ( 0500GMT) and the car was Super Crown
and you can see the damage caused by the blast," said a
policeman who was at the site.
A civilian truck was damaged in the blast.
The U.S. military was not immediately available for
comment on the attack.
In central Baghdad, a suicide car bomb exploded in
front of the Oil Ministry building on Sunday (May 29),
killing two of the ministry's guards and wounding four
people, police sources said.
"At approximately 02:30 a suicide bomber, targeting the
Oil Ministry, blew up his vehicle . He was driving on wrong
side of the road, targeting the Oil Ministry. Two of the
Ministry's guards were killed in the attack and two of the
Ministry's employees and two civilians were wounded. A car
was set ablaze and the body of the suicide bomber was
thrown behind the Ministry's outer wall," policeman Adil
Hassan said at the scene of the blast.
Insurgents have sharply raised the level of violence
over the past month, including a wave of suicide bombings.
The attacks have killed nearly 700 Iraqis, and 68 U.S.
soldiers have died in violence in the same period -- the
worst monthly U.S. death toll since January, when more than
100 were killed in the run up to the historic Jan. 30
elections.
Iraq's government has vowed to crack down on insurgents
and says it will order 40,000 troops to Baghdad to seal off
routes into the Iraqi capital, set up roadblocks and search
the capital district by district for guerrillas and weapons.
They will be backed by the 10,000 U.S. troops stationed
in Baghdad, officials say. The offensive, named Operation
Thunder, will be the largest Iraqi military operation since
the fall of Saddam Hussein more than two years ago.
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