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Heavy artillery fire in east Baghdad
Reuters | 4/06/03

Posted on 04/06/2003 5:18:23 AM PDT by kattracks

Heavy artillery fire in east Baghdad

BAGHDAD, April 6 (Reuters) - Heavy artillery fire hit the residential area of Zayouneh in east Baghdad on Sunday, near to an Iraqi Olympic Committee building of President Saddam Hussein's son Uday, a Reuters witness said.

Correspondent Samia Nakhoul said the sound of artillery and anti-aircraft fire could be heard from the area for several minutes. "It sounds like quite a big battle," she said.

The Zayouneh area is largely residential but Iraqi artillery batteries are believed to be stationed there. It also houses the homes of some Iraqi officers.

Earlier on Sunday reporters said they could see mortar shells, apparently fired by U.S. forces, landing in a district a few kilometres (miles) to the north of their hotel in central Baghdad. Smoke rose from the area.

"It used to be possible to tell where the battle front was, but now it seems there are pockets of fighting in different districts," Nakhoul said.

04/06/03 08:08 ET


TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: battleforbaghdad; embeddedreport; ioc; uday; viceisclosing

1 posted on 04/06/2003 5:18:23 AM PDT by kattracks
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