IRAQ: MILTANTS HAVE BOMBED FIVE SHOPS SELLING ALCOHOL IN BAQUBA KILLING ONE TAXI DRIVER

Record ID: 358656

  • Title: IRAQ: MILTANTS HAVE BOMBED FIVE SHOPS SELLING ALCOHOL IN BAQUBA KILLING ONE TAXI DRIVER
  • Date: 10th July 2004
  • Summary: (W3) BAQUBA, IRAQ (JULY 10, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. WIDE OF THE FIVE DAMAGED ALCHOHOL SHOPS 0.06 2. SLV ONE OF THE DAMAGED SHOPS 0.10 3. SLV PEOPLE WITH BOXES OF ALCOHOL 0.18 4. WIDE OF DAMAGED SHOP 0.22 5. PAN UP MAN LOOKING AT DAMAGE 0.32 6. VARIOUS OF A DAMAGED TAXI WITH BULLET HOLES/ SMASHED WINDOW SCREEN
  • Embargoed: 25th July 2004 13:00
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  • Location: BAQUBA, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA4XK8CMQ9BDENNXWU7EU6YIDKS
  • Story Text: Masked militants have bombed five shops selling
    alcohol in the Iraqi town of Baquba.



    Masked militants bombed five shops selling alcohol
    in a town northwest of Baghdad on Saturday (July 10),
    killing an Iraqi taxi driver who was passing by, police
    sources and witnesses said.

    They said four men in two BMW cars blocked a main road
    in Baquba, a town of both Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims, and
    planted explosives at the shop doors before detonating them.

    An Iraqi taxi driver, approaching in his car from a
    side road, was killed by the blast in the early hours of
    the morning, they added. None of the owners were in their
    shops at the time.

    Alcohol merchants in Iraq, particularly in the southern
    city of Basra, have been killed and threatened by Muslim
    groups who strongly oppose alcohol sales.


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