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Iraq TV: cargo train en-route Mosayyeb-Helleh exploded by armed insurgents

IRNA

Ilam, Dec 30, IRNA -- Iraq TV announced on Monday night that 
unidentified armed insurgents first seized a cargo train en-route 
Mosayyeb-Helleh in Iraq`s Babel Province and then exploded one of its 
compartments. 
Broadcasting a news film showing the destroyed train compartment, 
the Iraq TV reporter said, "local police forces got engaged in an 
armed clash with the unidentified armed insurgents in the seized 
train, that took two hours, in which they managed to save the other 
compartments of the train." 
According to the report, the cargo train was carrying computers, 
wood, food stuff, and stationary, a part of which were destroyed in 
the explosion and during the exchange of fire with the insurgents. 
Iraq TV did not mention what happened to the unidentified armed 
insurgents, or to the number of possible casualties during the 
two-hour exchange of fire between them and the local police forces. 
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