IRAQ: IRAQI HEALTH MINISTRY BEGINS EVACUATION OF WOUNDED CIVILIANS FROM FALLUJA

Record ID: 646779

  • Title: IRAQ: IRAQI HEALTH MINISTRY BEGINS EVACUATION OF WOUNDED CIVILIANS FROM FALLUJA
  • Date: 20th November 2004
  • Summary: (W2) FALLUJA, IRAQ (NOVEMBER 20, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. CONVOY OF AMBULANCES 0.10 2. U.S. MILITARY VEHICLE DRIVING BY 0.16 3. AMBULANCES TURNING ON ROAD 0.27 4. MV/SLV: AMBULANCES STOPPING AT U.S. CHECKPOINT / U.S. MILITARY VEHICLES AND SOLDIERS 92 SHOTS) 0.39 5. TRAVELLING SHOT: AMBULANCES DRIVING IN CONVOY ALOMG ROAD 0.44 (NIGHT SHOTS) 6. CU: NIGHT SHOT OF SIGN READING (Arabic): "JORDANIAN HOSPITAL" 0.51 7. WOUNDED MAN ON STRETCHER BEING BEING CARRIED ONTO AMBULANCE 1.21 8. WOUNDED WOMAN CLIMBING INTO AMBULANCE 1.27 9. PEOPLE INSIDE AMBULANCE 1.31 10. WOUNDED CIVILIAN MAN INSIDE AMBULANCE 1.41 11. ANOTHER WOUNDED BEING CARRIED ONTO AMBULANCE 1.50 12. WOUNDED CIVILIAN BEING TAKEN OUT OF HOSPITAL ON STRETCHER 1.59 13. U.S. SOLDIERS AT SITE; WOUNDED CIVILIAN ON STRETCHER IN BACKGROUND 2.03 14. WOUNDED MAN ON STRETCHER BEING CARRIED ONTO AMBULANCE 2.10 15. WOUNDED MAN INSIDE AMBULANCE 2.18 16. AMBULANCES NEAR HOSPITAL 2.24 17. AMBULANCES LEAVING 2.38 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 5th December 2004 12:00
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  • Location: FALLUJA, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA74I4OTHOK6T6T51ZZPZ4X6H27
  • Story Text: Iraqi Health Ministry starts to evacuate wounded
    civilians from Falluja.


    The Iraqi Health Ministry started to evacuate
    wounded civilians from Falluja for treatment in the capital
    Baghdad on Saturday (November 20).

    A convoy of ambulances headed to the Jordanian Hospital
    in the city to evacuate the wounded.

    Iraq's health minister has said the evacuation had
    begun of wounded civilians trapped inside Falluja during
    the past four days of military operations.

    In a statement, Minister Alaa Alwan said ambulances had
    begun transferring "significant numbers" of wounded to
    Baghdad hospitals. He did not specify how many.

    On Friday (November 19), aid agencies, including the
    Red Cross, warned of a major humanitarian disaster unless
    Iraqi and US authorities allowed food, water and medicine
    to reach the trapped civilians in the besieged city.

    Many of Falluja's 200,000 to 300,000 residents fled the
    city before the assault, which began last Monday (November
    15). US officials had estimated that 1,200 to 3,000
    insurgents were barricaded in the city.


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