IRAQ: RENEWED FIGHTING BREAKS OUT IN TURULENT CITY OF FALLUJA

Record ID: 376287

  • Title: IRAQ: RENEWED FIGHTING BREAKS OUT IN TURULENT CITY OF FALLUJA
  • Date: 25th June 2004
  • Summary: (EU) FALLUJA, IRAQ (JUNE 25, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. GV: SMOKE RISING INTO SKY 0.07 2. LV: U.S. TANK ON ROADWAY 0.13 3. ABANDONED TRAILER 0.21 4. MILITIAMEN IN STREET/ SOUND OF GUNFIRE/ WOUNDED MILITIAMAN CRAWLING ON STREET 0.38 5. SMOKE RISING IN DISTANCE 0.43 6. MAN HELPING INJURED MAN 0.52 7. MORE OF MILITIAMEN
  • Embargoed: 10th July 2004 13:00
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  • Location: FALLUJA, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVABX73NGYKFYJLT0VUPAN1PSCHJ
  • Story Text: Renewed fighting breaks out in the turbulent city of
    Falluja.


    Explosions and gunfire rocked the turbulent city of
    Falluja for a second day on Friday (June 25) after
    coordinated attacks in other Iraqi cities killed about 100
    people less than a week before Iraq's new government takes
    power.

    The fighting shattered a truce reached on Thursday (June
    24) on an unconditional ceasefire by U.S. forces and a
    number of Falluja Muslim clerics.

    U.S. tanks and armoured vehicles manoeuvred on the
    highway near the edges of Falluja, firing in all
    directions, while armed men in an eastern suburb returned
    fire.

    There were no confirmed reports yet on casualties.

    Falluja, part of the so-called Sunni Triangle to the
    west of Baghdad is a hotbed of attacks against U.S. forces.

    The city was one of the five Iraqi cities which were
    hit by a string of bloody attacks on Thursday.



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