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Truck bomb knocks Baghdad TV station off air
05 Apr 2007 12:55:14 GMT
Source: Reuters
(Updates casualty toll)

BAGHDAD, April 5 (Reuters) - A Baghdad satellite television station run by Iraq's biggest Sunni political party briefly went off the air on Thursday after a suicide truck bomb attack that killed one person and wounded 10.

After an interruption lasting about 30 minutes, the channel resumed broadcasting. It said the assistant to the station manager had been killed and 10 members of staff wounded, four of them critically.

The bomb exploded metres away from the television station in Jamiaa district in western Baghdad, setting nearby cars ablaze.

Iraqi journalists are frequent targets for attack amid deepening sectarian violence between Sunni Arabs and Shi'ites that has killed tens of thousands.

In January 2006, a Baghdad TV journalist was killed while filming an attack by U.S. forces in Ramadi. Gunmen also shot dead a presenter and another employee in two separate incidents in the same year.


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