(URG) Security guards fired randomly: Iraq official

Source: Reuters

Security guards fired randomly: Iraq official
Wed Oct 10, 2007 11:21am EDT

By Aseel Kami

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi authorities on Wednesday
accused guards working for a foreign security company
of firing randomly when they killed two women in the
latest incident involving private security contractors
that has outraged Iraqis.

Family members held a funeral service for the two
women after the shooting on Tuesday at a Baghdad
intersection involving guards working for Australian-
run, Dubai-based Unity Resources Group.

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Baghdad security spokesman Brigadier-General Qassim
Moussawi said the women were at an intersection in
Baghdad's Karrada district when four four-wheel-drive
vehicles drove up in convoy.

"It opened fire randomly, targeting an Oldsmobile
vehicle being driven by a woman," Moussawi told
Reuters.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL0554268320071010

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Yesterday: Security guards 'kill two Iraqis' (BBC via LBN)