IRAQI/JORDAN: IRAQI TELEVISION REPORTS FURTHER DAMAGE TO CITY OF KIRKUK BY ALLIED MISSILE ATTACKS

Record ID: 860799

  • Title: IRAQI/JORDAN: IRAQI TELEVISION REPORTS FURTHER DAMAGE TO CITY OF KIRKUK BY ALLIED MISSILE ATTACKS
  • Date: 30th January 1991
  • Summary: RUWEISHED, JORDAN (JANUARY 31, 1991) (VISNEWS) SV WOUNDED MAN TAKEN OUT OF AMBULANCE INTO HOSPITAL SV MEDICAL STAFF ATTENDING INJURED MAN
  • Embargoed: 14th February 1991 12:00
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  • Location: KIRKUK/UNDISCLOSED LOCATION, IRAQI/RUWEISHED, JORDAN
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  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA5AV8CPF6SJELWLL5WBEWGUA6N
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  • Story Text: Iraqi television reported Thursday (January 31) that further damaged was caused to the city of Kirkuk by allied missile attacks. Whole areas of the city appeared to have been turned into piles of rubble.

    Iraqi television also reported that civilians had been injured at an undisclosed location. Several wounded civilians were shown to be receiving treatment for serious wounds.

    A doctor moved from bed describing and exhibiting the injuries of his patients.

    One old woman had lost a leg and several men looked to be suffering from severe head and facial injured.

    At Jordan's Ruweished border post refugees fleeing Iraq were being treated for serious injuries which they claimed to have received from allied aircraft attacking the main Baghdad-Amman highway.

    Three Red Crescent ambulance returned with the charred bodies of drivers of oil tankers supposedly set ablaze by the allied airforce.

    Other injured refugees were being treated by the medical staff at the Ruweished hospital. Witness said one badly injured Jordanian man had been wounded on Wednesday (January 30) during allied air raids.

    Mahmoud Khreis, a surgeon at Ruweished hospital, said the wounds of the refugees suggested the planes were strafing vehicles with bullets as well as bombs. He said one man who fled from his car during a raid on the highway had a bullet wound in the hand. Another had been hit in the face by bomb fragment.
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