Sunday, November 7

Rail workers murdered in Iraq

The IFTU reports today (Wednesday 3 November 2004) that 4 of their members, named as Kasim Shahen and Mathem Shaker (both train drivers), Ahmed Ibrahim (train controller) and Ziad Tariq a security guard, were killed on the night of Wednesday 27/Thursday 28 October when their train was attacked on the railway line between Mosul and Baghdad.
The 2 train drivers, a controller (guard) and a security guard working for the Railways of the Iraqi Republic (IRR) were reported to have been killedtheir bodies mutilated and burnt by armed terrorists. The freight train
that was attacked was reported to have been carrying consumer goods.

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