Report Writing "Bomb Blast"

 

Bomb Blast

 

On 25th of June 2011 at about 1530 hrs, an unknown phone caller informed to ISF (International Stabilization Force) station in Baghdad Headquarters that there was a bomb blast incident happened in Southern Baghdad area. The duty officer Hans Muller a German national informed the matter to the station commander Lt. Colonel Roser Muller. At 1535 hrs, the duty officer dispatched a patrol team consisting of 10 NATO military personnel headed by Major Ramos a German national.

 

The team reached the scene at 1624 hrs and cordoned the certain area with red tape and called for five ambulances from the ISF headquarters. At 16.35 hours, the ambulances arrived at the scene. They picked 93 injured persons including one-third women and children and sent them to ISF military hospital, Baghdad. At about 20.20 hrs, they were attacked on the way back by some snipers. The snipers fired towards NATO military personnel by using automatic rifles, light machine guns and threw some grenades. NATO personnel also backed fired to the snipers by using APC's machine gun. After fighting.

   15, minutes, the snipers lunched a rocket to their APC, and it damaged of the right front side. Two NATO soldiers died on the spot and three were injured. Two NATO helicopters came to protect them and fired three missiles to the sniper's building at GR 256-459. NATO ground forces searched the area and saw five dead bodies of the snipers.

 

The injured NATO personnel were also sent to NATO military hospital by helicopter. According to Major Ramos, about the first incident. one eyewitness informed to the team that a suicide attacker blew up a bomb-filled car at a police station south of Baghdad, killing 51 people including more than 20 policemen as Iraqi forces prepared for Al-Qaeda revenge attacks after Osama bin Laden's death. The bombing badly damaged the police station in the center of the mainly Shiite sector area in Baghdad town. Haider al Zazour, head of the Baghdad provincial council security committee, said that the suicide bomber took advantage of the police station's guards changing shift to attack. The suicide bomber managed to drive through the main gate and blew up his vehicle four meters inside the station's perimeter. On 26th of June 2011, the chief of ISF hospital, the doctor Alim al-Ali put the toll 51 dead and 93 wounded, out of total dead 21 were policemen. At midnight eight people died in the hospital including three policemen. Iraqi Taliban leader Mustafa Omar claimed from an anonymous place that they were responsible for those two attacks. On 26 June 2011, at about 08.00 hrs, local police discovered two dead bodies of policemen, both bodies were covered.

 

On 25th of June 2011, at 15.20 hours, the cooker bombs blasted at the same time nearby the police station. The snipers had hidden powerful two cooker bombs in a hole. The previous night at 23.45 hours, two Muslim boys aged around 12 and 14 had hidden two five litter pressure cooker bombs under the soil. This blast was the revenge upon NATO Military and the police working under US after the death of Osama Bi'n Laden. The incident occurred at GR 238-457 in the center of Shiite sector area in Baghdad town. The snipers attacked the police just 7 days after US Special Forces killed Bin Laden in Pakistan. The suicide bomber named Obadul Hamid, managed to drive through the main gate and blew up his vehicle. The blast damaged the station and the six police vehicles inside the perimeter were burnt out. Four houses and three shops nearby the incident place were damaged by the blast. The snipers also attacked the NATO group forces hiding from the building located at GR 256-459. Two snipers aged around 35 were arrested at the checkpoint # 29 near the border of Syria. One of two arrested snipers sustained a bullet on the right ann. They confessed to their crime. Iraqi Taliban leader Mustafa Omar claimed from an anonymous place that they were responsible for those two attacks.

 

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