IRAQ: Suicide car bomb explodes inside Baghdad Green Zone, 2 dead

Record ID: 375725

  • Title: IRAQ: Suicide car bomb explodes inside Baghdad Green Zone, 2 dead
  • Date: 4th October 2005
  • Summary: BAGHDAD, IRAQ (OCTOBER 4, 2005)(REUTERS) SMOKE RISING FROM AREA NEAR GREEN ZONE MORE OF SMOKE RISING BAGHDAD SKYLINE/ U.S. HELICOPTERS FLYING OVER
  • Embargoed: 19th October 2005 13:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
  • Reuters ID: LVA6DK2ZW27SNAJIUU7XRXUUGW5Y
  • Story Text: A suicide car bomber drove into Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone complex with a convoy of other vehicles on Tuesday (October 04), blew himself up killing two people and wounding six, Iraqi police said. The vehicle entered the Green Zone, which houses the U.S. and British embassies and the Iraqi government, by an entrance used by Iraqi employees, journalists and others to enter the complex. Police said the car exploded as it was being searched at a checkpoint inside the zone. The attack came on the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which, in the past, has been marked by surges in violence. Two Iraqi soldiers and a civilian died, police said. Four Iraqi soldiers and two policemen were also wounded. It was not immediately clear what sort of convoy was entering the area at the time. It is not the first time bombers have managed to penetrate the Green Zone, a vast area on the west bank of the Tigris river that used to be part of Saddam Hussein's palace complex, that has been occupied by U.S. forces since the 2003 invasion. Last October, on the eve of Ramadan, two al Qaeda suicide bombers blew themselves up in a co-ordinated attack deep inside the zone, targeting a popular restaurant and a nearby street, killing five people, at least three of them Americans. Last month, a vehicle suspected of being loaded with explosives entered the Green Zone, was stopped and then blown up by the U.S. military. It proved not to be a car bomb. Other entrances to the Green Zone have been attacked before.
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