IRAQ: ONE IRAQI KILLED IN FIRE FIGHT WITH US TROOPS

Record ID: 376263

  • Title: IRAQ: ONE IRAQI KILLED IN FIRE FIGHT WITH US TROOPS
  • Date: 7th August 2003
  • Summary: (W4) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (AUGUST 7, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. WIDE OF SMOKE RISING ALONG STREET, U.S. MILITARY VEHICLES STATIONARY IN ROAD AS GUNFIRE HEARD 0.13 2. SLV OF U.S. TROOPS TAKING COVER BEHIND VEHICLE AS SHOTS FIRED 0.30 3. SMV U.S. TROOPS WALKING SLOWLY BEHIND VEHICLE, AIMING WEAPONS 0.45 4. VARIOUS U.S. TROOPS TAKING CO
  • Embargoed: 22nd August 2003 13:00
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  • Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVAC4SQBU8EPWGG2Q4OUZZ3UTNL1
  • Story Text: One Iraqi has been killed in a firefight with U.S.

    troops in Baghdad after Iraqi guerillas fired a rocket
    propelled grenade at a Humvee.



    Iraqi guerrillas fired a rocket- propelled grenade
    that set ablaze a U.S. military vehicle in central Baghdad
    on Thursday (August 7), inflicting U.S. casualties,
    witnesses said.

    U.S. troops exchanged fire with gunmen in nearby
    buildings after a blast set a Humvee vehicle ablaze. At
    least one Iraqi bystander was killed as U.S. soldiers
    sprayed the streets with bullets.

    A U.S. army spokesman said there had been an improvised
    bomb attack in the area but had no information on
    casualties.

    Reuters photographer Oleg Popov who was at the scene
    said U.S. soldiers opened fire after the attack, killing a
    man whose body lay spreadeagled on the road, blood oozing
    from his head onto the baking-hot tarmac.

    The witnesses said the Humvee was driving near the Palm
    Hotel when guerrillas fired the grenade. Four soldiers were
    inside the vehicle when it was hit and they suffered
    serious wounds, they said.

    A U.S. force engaged the attackers, exchanging intense
    small arms fire.

    The army said that in an earlier gunbattle in central
    Baghdad on Wednesday night, guerrillas killed two American
    soldiers and wounded another, along with an Iraqi
    interpreter.

    The deaths brought to 55 the number of U.S. troops
    killed in hostile action since May 1.

    (jrc/lh)



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