IRAQ: AT LEAST 35 PEOPLE KILLED AND 100 WOUNDED IN CAR BOMB TARGETTING US- IRAQ ARMY BASE

Record ID: 358675

  • Title: IRAQ: AT LEAST 35 PEOPLE KILLED AND 100 WOUNDED IN CAR BOMB TARGETTING US- IRAQ ARMY BASE
  • Date: 17th June 2004
  • Summary: (W3) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (JUNE 17, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. WIDE OF PEOPLE TRYING TO OPEN DOOR OF DAMAGED CAR 0.05 2. VARIOUS OF SECURITY AT SITE 0.11 3. SLV BUS WITH WINDOWS BLOWN OUT 0.18 4. SLV PEOPLE TRYING TO REMOVE BODY FROM CAR 0.27 5. CLOSE OF BODY IN CAR 0.31 6. SLV SECURITY STANDING OVER SECOND BODY IN STR
  • Embargoed: 2nd July 2004 13:00
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  • Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA7M8MM05HGL3DY1CWPE6YMZS1P
  • Story Text: At least 35 people were killed and more than 100
    were wounded in a car bomb that targeted a U.S.-Iraq army
    base in Baghdad.






    A suicide car bomber killed at least 35 people at an
    Iraqi military base in Baghdad on Thursday (June 17) as
    guerrillas intensified a bloody campaign to sabotage plans
    for U.S.-led occupation to give way to Iraqi rule on June
    30.

    The blast outside an army recruiting centre on a busy
    main road also wounded 119 people, a Health Ministry
    spokeswoman said.

    Colonel Mike Murray of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division
    said the bomber had blown up a white four-wheel-drive
    vehicle at the centre near Muthanna airport, where U.S.

    troops are based.

    Murray said about 175 army recruits inside the Iraqi
    base were unhurt. Passersby took the brunt of the blast.

    "The likelihood of attacks will go up in the next couple
    of weeks as we progress towards sovereignty for
    Iraq....there has been more car bombs lately than there
    were let's say in the past two or three months" he said.

    Dead and wounded were brought to Yarmouk hospital.

    Other casualties were believed to have been taken to the
    city's Karkh hospital.

    U.S. troops sealed off the area after the attack and
    were seen detaining people.

    It was the latest attack in a lethal drive by
    guerrillas determined to undermine Iraq's new interim
    government ahead of the transfer of power from the U.S.-led
    occupation.

    The insurgents, thought to include Baathists loyal to
    former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, Iraqi nationalists
    and foreign militants, have targeted Iraq's oil industry,
    government officials and security forces in the run-up to
    the handover.



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