IRAQ: Residents survey wreckage after bomb attack in Northern Iraq

Record ID: 863565

  • Title: IRAQ: Residents survey wreckage after bomb attack in Northern Iraq
  • Date: 11th June 2013
  • Summary: KIRKUK, IRAQ (JUNE 11, 2013) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF PEOPLE INSPECTING DAMAGE CAUSED BY CAR BOMB MAN INSPECTING HOLE IN A WALL CAUSED BY CAR BOMB PEOPLE INSPECTING DAMAGE CAUSED BY CAR BOMB VARIOUS OF BOY INSPECTING AND CARRYING WRECKAGE MAN REMOVING WRECKAGE VARIOUS OF MEN SWEEPING DEBRIS IN FRONT OF SHOPS MAN REMOVING DAMAGED SIGN PEOPLE WATCHING AS SIGN IS REMOVED VARIOUS OF BOY SORTING THROUGH DEBRIS AS CARS DRIVE PAST IN BACKGROUND TWO BOYS WALKING IN FRONT OF DAMAGED HOUSE VARIOUS OF DAMAGED HOUSE (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) KIRKUK RESIDENT, YSDDEN, SAYING: "The situation is terrible, where is the government? What are these explosions for? They say there is security - where is the security? Bombing houses, there isn't a police headquarters here or a provincial council building. What's the purpose of government. Only last night we had two explosions here and there's nothing here. Where's the security, we leave our houses every morning, preparing for the worst - we may not return. I ask the government for security - if they can't provide security, they should leave and be replaced with others who can - this is not acceptable." PEOPLE LOOKING AT DEBRIS/CARS DRIVING PAST IN BACKGROUND PEOPLE REMOVING WRECKAGE
  • Embargoed: 26th June 2013 13:00
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  • Location: Iraq
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  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Crime
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  • Story Text: Residents in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk inspected damage to houses and shops on Tuesday (June 11) after a car bomb attack the day before.
    Police say the attack, which targeted civilians, killed at least two people and wounded 27 others.
    A resident of the al-Askari neighbourhood, Ysdden, said the situation was terrible.
    "Where is the government? What are these explosions for? They say there is security - where is the security? Bombing houses, there isn't a police headquarters here or a provincial council building. What's the purpose of government. Only last night we had two explosions here and there's nothing here. Where's the security, we leave our houses every morning, preparing for the worst - we may not return. I ask the government for security - if they can't provide security, they should leave and be replaced with others who can - this is not acceptable," he said.
    Insurgents attacked cities across Iraq on Monday (June 10) with car bombs, suicide blasts and gun battles that killed more than 70 people in unrest that has deepened fears of a return to civil war.
    No group claimed responsibility for the day-long attacks, most of them in northern Iraq, but officials blame much of the violence that has killed nearly 2,000 people since April on Sunni Islamist insurgents linked to al Qaeda's local wing.
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