- Title: IRAQ: TURKISH WORKERS HELP RESCUE BODIES FROM WRECKAGE OF U.N. HEADQUARTERS.
- Date: 22nd August 2003
- Summary: (EU) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (AUGUST 21, 2003) (REUTERS- ACCESS ALL) 1. LV/GV/CU: EXTERIORS OF THE DAMAGED UNITED NATIONS COMPOUND; U.N. FLAG (3 SHOTS) 0.15 2. LV/GV: TURKISH WORKERS AT THE SCENE (ORANGE OVERALLS) (5 SHOTS) 0.38 3. GV: U.S. SOLDIERS ON A HUMVEE 0.43 4. GV: SMALL DEMO DENOUNCING THE BLAST (2 SHOTS) 0.54 5. GV: REPORTERS 0.59 6. MCU: (SOUNDBITE) (English) QAYDAR AL-CHALABI, DIRECTOR OF REHABILITATING CLINIC CENTRE, SAYING: "This is the centre just here next door to the U.N. which is completely destroyed from the explosion. About eight patients have been injured and a lot of our staff also. It ranges between minor injuries and severe injuries from glass, from doors, from ceilings and roofs because this is a ready made building which has been corrupted and fallen down." 1.29 7. MV: REPORTERS 1.34 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
- Country: Iraq
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- Story Text: Turkish workers have arrived in Baghdad to help
rescue bodies buried under debris of the U.N. headquarters.
A small group of Turkish workers took part on
Thursday (August 21) in the process of taking debris away
and searching for survivors and bodies underneath of the
wreckage of the U.N compound destroyed in truck bomb blast
on Tuesday (August 19).
A cement truck packed with explosives devastated the
United Nations headquarters in Iraq on Tuesday, killing the
top U.N.
envoy and at least 22 other people in an unprecedented
attack against the world body. At least 100 people were
wounded.
Vieira de Mello a 55-year-old veteran diplomat serving
in what one U.N. spokesman called the United Nation's
toughest assignment was meeting with other U.N. officials
in his office when the explosion brought the room down
around them.
U.N. and U.S. officials called the bombing a "terrorist
attack" but there was no immediate claim of responsibility.
The bombing came nearly two weeks after a car exploded and
killed 19 people at the Jordanian Embassy in Baghdad and
after a string of dramatic attacks on oil and water
pipelines in Iraq.
A clinic next to the U.N. has also been affected in the
explosion.
"This is the centre just here next to the U.N. which is
completely destroyed from the explosion. About eight
patients have been injured and a lot of our staff also. It
ranges between minor injuries and severe injuries from
glass, from doors, from ceilings and roofs because this is
a ready made building which has been corrupted and fallen
down," Dr. Qaydar al-Chalabi said.
The bombing blasted a 6-foot-deep crater and shredded
the facade of the Canal Hotel, which housed the U.N.
offices.
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