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国連の到着に先立つ、モスルでの車爆弾攻撃。警察署を直撃。
米兵3人他多数死亡。他イラク人多数が死亡。
BBCでは少なくとも10人死亡と告げている。
Reuters.com
http://www.reuters.com/
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=KZNOU32K1RUV2CRBAELCFFA?type=topNews&storyID=4254440
Car Bomb Rocks Iraqi Police Ahead of UN Arrival
Sat January 31, 2004 05:40 AM ET
By Hamza al-Badri
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Guerrillas detonated a car bomb outside a police station in the Iraqi city of Mosul on Saturday, causing several casualties, and killed three U.S. soldiers in a separate attack on an Army convoy.
Witnesses in Mosul, 240 miles north of Baghdad, said several people were believed killed or wounded in the blast at the police station. Major Hugh Cate, spokesman for the 101st Airborne Division in Mosul, said there were no U.S. casualties.
"Iraqi fire and rescue teams are on site. U.S. personnel are on site to assist as required," he said.
Military sources said three U.S. soldiers were killed when their convoy was attacked between Kirkuk and Tikrit, ousted leader Saddam Hussein's hometown 110 miles north of Baghdad.
The deaths brought to 364 the number of U.S. soldiers killed in action in Iraq since the start of the war last March. Including non-combat deaths, the toll is 522.
The attacks came on the eve of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. Guerrillas have often struck on significant dates -- a car bomb destroyed a Baghdad restaurant on New Year's Eve, killing eight, and on Oct. 27, the first day of Ramadan, coordinated suicide attacks in Baghdad killed at least 35.
Despite the violence plaguing Iraq, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has given the go-ahead for a team of experts to arrive within days to assess the feasibility of holding elections ahead of the June 30 deadline for the handover of sovereignty from the U.S.-led coalition to an Iraqi government.
Annan pulled international staff out of Iraq last year after two suicide attacks on the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad. The most devastating attack, on Aug. 19, killed 22 people including the head of the U.N. mission, Sergio Vieira de Mello.