- Title: IRAQ: CAR BOMB KILLS NINE PEOPLE OUTSIDE IRAQI SECURITY FORCE BASE
- Date: 7th June 2004
- Summary: (W4) TAJI, IRAQ (JUNE6, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. SLV EMERGENCY VEHICLES SPEEDING ALONG ROAD; SLV EXTERIOR HOSPITAL 2. WOUNDED FROM ATTACK IN TAJI LYING IN HOSPITAL 3. VARIOUS OF WOUNDED 4. DOCTORS TENDING TO INJURIES 5. MV MAN IN MORGUE DISPLAYING BODIES OF PEOPLE KILLED IN TAJI ATTACK 2.03 Initials Script is cop
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- Location: TAJI, IRAQ
- Country: Iraq
- Reuters ID: LVA7UQGOATKZV4HINKUHYI3BO8WH
- Story Text: Car bomb kills nine outside Iraqi security force base.
Guerrillas detonated a car bomb outside an Iraqi
security force base just north of Baghdad on Sunday (June
6), killing nine people and wounding dozens in the latest
attack on Iraqis cooperating with occupying troops.
With the formal handover of sovereignty to an Iraqi
government less than four weeks away, Baghdad has seen a
surge in deadly attacks in recent days.
The 15-nation U.N. Security Council was called into a
special session on Sunday amid signs that the United States
is close to securing agreement on a draft U.N. resolution
on the future of Iraq after June 30.
U.S. Major Andreas Dekunpfy told Reuters at the scene
of the blast at the Iraqi Civil Defence Corps base in Taji
that "a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device was
detonated".
It was not clear whether the bombing was a suicide
attack, a tactic regularly used by insurgents.
The U.S. military said six people were killed but
hospital officials later said nine Iraqis were killed and
61 wounded.
On Saturday (June 5), two soldiers were killed and two
wounded when a bomb was detonated near their convoy in the
northeast of the capital. The previous day (Friday June 4),
five soldiers were killed in a guerrilla attack in the same
area.
Insurgents also attacked foreigners travelling in
civilian four-wheel drive vehicles on the airport road on
Saturday. After the attack two vehicles were in flames and
witnesses said they saw at least two bodies. The U.S.
military had no information.
South of Baghdad, gunmen burst into a police station in
the town of Mussayab on Saturday and forced police into a
cell before detonating explosives in the building, police
said. They said at least 10 policemen and two civilians
were killed.
Iraqi police and security personnel are regularly
targeted by guerrillas, who have repeatedly threatened
Iraqis who work with occupying troops and foreign
organisations.
On Saturday, a rocket-propelled grenade attack on
Iraqis queuing outside an army recruiting centre in the
northern city of Mosul wounded 17 people.
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