IRAQ: AT LEAST 4 PEOPLE ARE KILLED IN SUICIDE CAR BOMB EXPLOSION IN KURDISH CITY OF ARBIL

Record ID: 358853

  • Title: IRAQ: AT LEAST 4 PEOPLE ARE KILLED IN SUICIDE CAR BOMB EXPLOSION IN KURDISH CITY OF ARBIL
  • Date: 24th December 2003
  • Summary: (W4) ARBIL, IRAQ (DECEMBER 24, 2003) (REUTERS) (QUALITY AS INCOMING) 1. PEOPLE STANDING AROUND A CRATER CAUSED BY THE BLAST 0.07 2. CARS AND PEOPLE AROUND AREA OF THE BLAST 0.12 3. CU: CRATER CAUSED BY THE BLAST 0.33 4. WS/PAN: PEOPLE STANDING AROUND CRATER; REMAINS OF CAR (2 SHOTS) 0.48 5. CLOSE UP OF THE CRATER; PAN TO RE
  • Embargoed: 8th January 2004 12:00
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  • Location: ARBIL, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA6F316DA4LV80WBDGPTNK30YK9
  • Story Text: At least four people were killed in an explosion in
    the northern Iraqi town of Arbil

    A suicide car bomb exploded outside a government
    building in the Kurdish city of Arbil in northern Iraq on
    Wednesday (December 24), killing at least four people and
    wounding 20, Iraqi officials said.

    The car detonated just outside the gates of the
    Interior Ministry in the city, killing the bomber, two
    policemen guarding the facility and a passer-by.

    The ministry building suffered material damage and
    windows of nearby residential buildings were shattered by
    the blast, witnesses said.

    U.S.-led occupation forces in Iraq have tightened
    security in Baghdad and other hotspots in anticipation of
    attacks by insurgents to coincide with the holiday season.

    The mainly Kurdish north has seen less violence than
    the rest of Iraq since U.S.-led forces deposed Saddam
    Hussein in April, but several car bombs have targeted U.S.

    troops and Iraqis working with them in the region.

    Arbil was the seat of an autonomous Kurdish government
    after the 1991 Gulf War when U.S.-backed Kurds rebelled
    against Saddam's government in Baghdad.

    More than 200 U.S. soldiers have been killed since
    Washington declared major combat over on May 1. Officials
    have blamed the attacks on Saddam loyalists and foreign
    fighters.

    U.S. soldiers have arrested hundreds of suspected
    loyalists and Islamists in raids across the Sunni Muslim
    heartland west and north of Baghdad since Saddam was
    captured on December 13 in his hometown of Tikrit.


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