UNITED KINGDOM: U.N. marks 10th anniversary of deadly bombing at its headquarters in Baghdad

Record ID: 359092

  • Title: UNITED KINGDOM: U.N. marks 10th anniversary of deadly bombing at its headquarters in Baghdad
  • Date: 19th August 2013
  • Summary: BAGHDAD, IRAQ (AUGUST 19, 2003) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) BURNING VEHICLE IN FRONT OF BADLY DAMAGED U.N. HEADQUARTERS LEAVING 22 DEAD, INCLUDING U.N. SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE SERGIO VIEIRA DE MELLO U.N. FLAG AND SMOKE, BURNING VEHICLE
  • Embargoed: 3rd September 2013 13:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVABWCANT5PJ85EP0H08F06O72FF
  • Story Text: The United Nations marked the 10th anniversary of the deadly bombing of the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad.
    On the afternoon of August 19, 2003, a bomb blast at the Canal Hotel, which served as the U.N. center of operations in Baghdad, killed 22 United Nations and aid agency staff.
    The Secretary-General's Special Representative to Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello, was among the dead.
    Inside the United Nations headquarters in New York on Monday (August 19), U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon laid a wreath to honor the memory of those killed.
    Later, Ban led a candle-lighting ceremony during a memorial service.
    Together Ban, Acting General Assembly President and Permanent Representative of Bangladesh A.K. Abdul Momen and Security Council President and Permanent Representative of Argentina Maria Cristina Perceval lit a candle to remember their fallen colleagues.
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