IRAQ: A BOMB HAS BLOWN UP AT A CHURCH IN SOUTHWESTERN BAGHDAD

Record ID: 358810

  • Title: IRAQ: A BOMB HAS BLOWN UP AT A CHURCH IN SOUTHWESTERN BAGHDAD
  • Date: 8th November 2004
  • Summary: (W6) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (NOVEMBER 8, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. LV OF AREA WHERE THE EXPLOSION HAPPENED; FIE AND SMOKE RISING 0.08 2. LV FIRE FIGHTING ENGINES ARRIVING AT THE SITE (3 SHOTS) 0.25 3. SV WOUNDED PEOPLE WALKING (3 SHOTS) 0.45 4. SV DAMAGE INSIDE HOUSE (3 SHOTS) 1.02 5. SLV/SV OF POLICE CARS ARRIVING AT AL-YARMOUK HOSPITAL WI
  • Embargoed: 23rd November 2004 12:00
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  • Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVADHRGRG63Z4BJ7IBTHIT7F2056
  • Story Text: A bomb has blown up at a church in southwestern
    Baghdad.




    An explosion outside a Catholic church in
    southwestern Baghdad on Monday evening (November 8) wounded
    at least 40 people and killed three people, police and
    hospital sources said.

    The blast destroyed the outer wall of St. Bahnam's
    Church and set the house next door ablaze, witnesses said.

    A doctor at Yarmouk Hospital said 43 people had been
    brought in from the blast in the capital's Dora district.

    Police said a car bomb had detonated outside the church
    but witnesses said it appeared explosives were planted
    nearby and others said that it was an attack by unknown
    armed fighters who attacked the church by
    rocket-propelled-grenades (RPG).

    The blast was the latest in a series of major
    explosions to rock the capital as rebels fighting the
    interim government and its U.S.-allies struck back during
    preparations for a U.S.-led assault on the rebel-held city
    of Falluja that began on Monday.

    Five churches were hit in a string of bomb attacks in
    October that seemed designed to intimidate the country's
    small but deep-rooted Christian community, and only in Al
    Dora district three churches had been attacked until now,
    already shaken by a series of church bombings that killed
    11 people in August.

    Iraq's 650,000 Christians, mostly Chaldeans, Assyrians
    and Catholics, comprise about three percent of the
    population.


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