IRAQ: MORTARS FIRE AT THE ITALIAN EMBASSY IN BAGHDAD HAVE CAUSED SLIGHT DAMAGE TO NARBY HOUSES

Record ID: 648135

  • Title: IRAQ: MORTARS FIRE AT THE ITALIAN EMBASSY IN BAGHDAD HAVE CAUSED SLIGHT DAMAGE TO NARBY HOUSES
  • Date: 24th September 2004
  • Summary: (W3) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (SEPTEMBER 24, 2004)(REUTERS) 1. SLV HOUSE NEAR ITALIAN EMBASSY (2 SHOTS) 0.10 2. SV DAMAGED CONCRETE OF WALL 0.16 3. CU MORTAR ON GROUND 0.22 4. SV WALL POCKMARKED WITH SHRAPNEL HOLES 0.28 5. SV/CU SHATTERED WINDOW (2 SHOTS) 0.39 6. SV DEBRIS ON FLOOR 0.45 7. CU RUBBLE ON KICHEN SINK (2 SHOTS) 0.56 8. MCU (Arabic), RESIDENT OF HOUSE, SAYING: "I was standing here washing my face when the attack happened. I heard the sound then I fell to the ground. The target was the Italian embassy, which is located behind our house and we are the ones who get hurt. What is the benefit of this attack?." 1.15 9. SV HOLE ON ROOF 1.20 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 9th October 2004 13:00
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  • Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA8Y9ZXT2KS5UC1WR2B0ER90Q0E
  • Story Text: Mortars fired at the Italian embassy in Baghdad have
    caused slight damage to nearby houses.



    The Italian Embassy building in Baghdad came
    under mortar attack on Friday (September 24, 2004).

    Residents said six mortars were fired at the embassy
    building in Baghdad's al-Waziriya neighbourhood early on
    Friday, but missed targets and landed on nearby houses,
    causing slight structural damage but no injuries.

    The mortars gouged out a hole in a roof of one of the
    houses and shattered windows of a number of houses.

    Italian women Simona Pari and Simona Torretta, both aged
    29, who work for an aid organisation in Iraq were
    kidnapped in Baghdad on September 7 along with two Iraqi
    colleagues.

    A militant group calling itself the Islamic Jihad
    Organisation said on September 12 that it would kill the
    hostages in 24 hours if Italian troops did not leave Iraq.

    Early on Thursday (September 23) the so-called Jihad
    Organisation said the women were dead.

    The aid organisation which employed the two women,
    Bridge to Baghdad, said they were hoping and praying the
    militant claim was not true.

    "Until we have certainty, we will not have peace," the
    group said on its Web site.

    Two Italian men were kidnapped and killed in Iraq
    earlier this year, but the abduction of the "two Simonas",
    as they have become known, stirred special emotion in Italy.


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