IRAQ: AT LEAST FIVE IRAQIS HAVE DIED AND FIFTY INJURED WHEN A SUICIDE CAR BOMB EXPLODED OUTSIDE A POLICE STATION

Record ID: 647661

  • Title: IRAQ: AT LEAST FIVE IRAQIS HAVE DIED AND FIFTY INJURED WHEN A SUICIDE CAR BOMB EXPLODED OUTSIDE A POLICE STATION
  • Date: 2nd August 2004
  • Summary: (W3) MOSUL, IRAQ (AUGUST 1, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. SLV BLAST SITE WITH DAMAGED VEHICLE IN FOREGROUND AND POLICE STATION IN BACKGROUND AND POLICE AT SCENE 0.06 2. DAMAGED VEHICLE 3. VIEW OF DAMAGED VEHICLE 0.21 4. CRATER IN GROUND CAUSED BY FORCE OF BLAST 0.27 5. MORE VIEWS OF DAMAGED AND BURNED OUT VEHICLES 6. POLICE LOOKING AT DAMAGE 7. BLAST SITE 1.00 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 17th August 2004 13:00
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  • Location: MOSUL, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVADI2TVMUV3P9JBWJC23EVKEMRZ
  • Story Text: At least five Iraqis have died and 50 injured when a
    suicide car bomb exploded outside police station in Mosul.

    A suicide car bomb exploded outside a police
    station in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Sunday
    (August 1), killing at least five people and wounding more
    than 50, police and doctors said.

    Witnesses said a Toyota Landcruiser raced towards a
    checkpoint as guards shouted at the driver to stop. When he
    did not, they opened fire, killing the driver, but the car
    ploughed on and exploded 20 metres (60 feet) from the
    station.

    One eyewitness said he saw the car approaching the
    police station at high speed. Police opened fire on it and
    killed the driver but the car still carried on and blew up
    near people.

    Those killed were police officers, a police lieutenant
    at the scene said, and the wounded were a mix of police and
    civilians. Doctors said they expected the death toll to
    rise and said many of the 50 wounded were badly hurt.

    The attack destroyed parts of the police station in the
    east of the city, houses, three police cars and a dozen
    civilian vehicles, police said. A deep crater was gouged
    out of the road outside the building.

    Insurgents have repeatedly attacked Iraqi police and
    National Guardsmen over the past year, blowing up
    recruiting centres, barracks and police stations in an
    effort to kill those seen as collaborating with the U.S.

    forces.

    On Wednesday (July 28) 70 people were killed and more
    than 50 wounded in a car bomb attack near a police
    recruiting centre in Baquba, north of Baghdad.

    Last week, the U.S. military said some 1,100 Iraqis had
    been killed or wounded in insurgent attacks, car bombs,
    shootings, suicide attacks and the like, since the handover
    of power to an interim Iraqi government a little over a
    month ago.


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