IRAQ: SCHOOL DESTROYED BY U.S. AND BRITISH BOMBARDMENTS AND VICTIMS BEING TREATED IN HOSPITAL IN BASRA.

Record ID: 358809

  • Title: IRAQ: SCHOOL DESTROYED BY U.S. AND BRITISH BOMBARDMENTS AND VICTIMS BEING TREATED IN HOSPITAL IN BASRA.
  • Date: 23rd March 2003
  • Summary: (U3) BASRA, IRAQ (MARCH 23, 2003)(REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS: RUBBLE OF GIRL'S SCHOOL HIT BY BOMB. (3 SHOTS) 0.45 2. MV: BOY STANDING ON RUBBLE. 0.49 3. VARIOUS: MORE OF PEOPLE AMONGST THE RUBBLE INCLUDING YOUNG MEN MAKING VICTORY SIGNS. (7 SHOTS) 2.22 4. MV/ZOOM OUT:WOMAN STANDING ON RUBBLE PRAISING SADDAM AND JOINED BY YOUT
  • Embargoed: 7th April 2003 13:00
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  • Location: BASRA, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA9G9NIG5XZNTGUF49NXZVS9RF1
  • Story Text: Iraqi officials have taken journalists to the southern
    city of Basra to see what they said was damage caused by the
    U.S.-led attack against Iraq.



    Television cameras were taken to the southern Iraqi
    city of Basra on Sunday (March 23) to see what the Iraqi
    authorities claimed were the remains of buildings demolished
    by U.S. and British bombardments.

    Correspondents were shown what the Iraqis said were the
    remains of a local school and later visited a hospital where
    an injured man with chest and neck injuries was treated by
    medical staff.

    Iraq's information minister said on Monday (March 24)
    that 62 people had been killed by U.S.-led forces in the
    previous 24 hours and more than 400 had been wounded.

    Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf gave the figures at a news
    conference, breaking them down by city. He said that 14 people
    had been killed in the southern city of Basra.




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