IRAQ: MORTAR ROUNDS LAND NEAR ITALIAN EMBASSY LEAVING AT LEAST ONE PERSON DEAD

Record ID: 647042

  • Title: IRAQ: MORTAR ROUNDS LAND NEAR ITALIAN EMBASSY LEAVING AT LEAST ONE PERSON DEAD
  • Date: 5th June 2004
  • Summary: (EU)BAGHDAD, IRAQ (JUNE 3, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. SLV EXTERIOR OF HOSPITAL (MEDICAL CITY) 0.06 2. MV DOCTORS TENDING WOUNDED MAN 3. WOUNDED MAN ON STRETCHER 4. MEN CARRYING DEAD MAN ON STRETCHER TO HOSPITAL MORGUE 0.37 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 20th June 2004 13:00
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  • Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVADU2RE7URENHFYP6D066YTC2S
  • Story Text: Mortar rounds land near Italian Embassy in Baghdad,
    wounding several Iraqis, but no diplomatic staff. At least
    one person dead.

    Iraqi police and embassy staff said the mortar
    rounds which landed near the Italian embassy in Baghdad on
    Thursday (June 3), wounded several Iraqis but no embassy
    staff.

    A doctor at the hospital compound, Medical City, said
    they had received one dead body and one injured man who was
    in a critical condition.

    Haitham al-Fadel, a guard at the embassy, said six
    people, including three children, were wounded when the
    mortars fell on a nearby restaurant and a house in the
    northern Baghdad neighbourhood.

    An employee at the embassy said no staff were wounded.

    Insurgents have attacked the area around the Italian
    embassy several times in recent months, mostly causing only
    minor damage. Last year the embassy was hit by a
    rocket-propelled grenade.

    Italy has about 2,700 troops in Iraq and its nationals
    have regularly been targeted by insurgents because of the
    country's participation in the U.S.-led coalition.

    In April, four Italians working for a private U.S.

    security firm were kidnapped. One was killed two days later
    after Italy refused to give in to demands to withdraw its
    forces from Iraq. The other three remain in captivity.

    Last year, a car bomb blew up headquarters for Italian
    forces in the southern city of Nassiriya, killing 19
    Italians.


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