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Iraqi Gunmen Kill 2 Foreigners
http://www.sina.com.cn 2004/03/30 16:32  Shanghai Daily

  Gunmen killed two foreign security guards, including one Briton, in an attack on their vehicle in a city in northern Iraq yesterday, authorities said.

  Us soldiers and Iraqi police sealed off the area in Mosul after the shooting. Witnesses saw two partly burned bodies, clad in blue clothing and flak jackets, lying beside a four-wheel drive vehicle that was on fire. One man had been shot in the head.

  In london, the Foreign Office confirmed that one British national was killed. A second slain victim was not British, a spokesman said. He gave no further details.

  The two men were assigned to protect foreign engineers working for General Electric Co, a spokesman for the US-led coalition said on condition of anonymity. He confirmed one was a Briton, and that the nationality of the second was unclear.

  Earlier, an Iraqi official at the power station in East Mosul said the slain men were protecting foreign experts working at the station. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the official said a second car carrying experts escaped the attack.

  General electric is involved in efforts to rebuild Iraq's decrepit, electrical infrastructure, which has suffered from bombing and years of sanctions. Power blackouts are frequent.

  Insurgents have targeted foreign civilians, likely as a means of undermining reconstruction efforts in Iraq. Earlier this month, four American missionaries working on a water project were shot to death in Mosul. One missionary survived with injuries.

  Also yesterday, assailants detonated a bomb in Baqouba, a city northeast of Baghdad, injuring five bystanders, including two children. It was unclear whether the blast targeted a policeman who lives near the site of the explosion, or the house of a carpenter who has received threats because he has worked for American forces.

  The blast in Baqouba, where anti-US insurgents are active, wounded an eight-year-old boy and his 10-year-old sister, police Captain Mohammed Hadi said. The policeman and the carpenter were unharmed.

  Further north, in Kirkuk, a bomb exploded at an intersection where local police cars park daily.

  Three civilians were injured, police Colonel Dashti Aziz said. As bystanders gathered after the blast, gunmen opened fire from a passing car, but there were no casualties. Police said the shooters were later apprehended.

  Rebels routinely target police and other Iraqis who are working with the coalition that is governing Iraq, but civilians often get caught in the crossfire.

  On saturday, rebel rockets slammed into a government building in the northern city of Mosul, killing two civilians and wounding 14 others.

  The rocket launcher was hidden in a wooden cart.

  (The Associated Press)




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