Outraged Iraqis condemn killings by foreign guards

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Source: AFP

Outraged Iraqis condemn killings by foreign guards
by Salam Faraj
Wed Oct 10, 3:59 PM ET

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Outraged Iraqi authorities on Wednesday condemned the killing in Baghdad of two women by foreign security guards but the Australian-run firm that hired the contractors said they had opened fire fearing a suicide attack.

"The government and the prime minister and everybody categorically condemns the actions of this company," the head of Baghdad security, General Qassim Mussawi, said in a statement.

Tuesday's shooting came just days after Iraq vowed to punish US firm Blackwater when a probe found that its guards opened "deliberate" fire in another incident in Baghdad three weeks ago, killing 17 civilians.

Witnesses to the latest shooting, in Karrada neighbourhood, said a woman taxi driver mistakenly got too close to a convoy of Dubai-based Unity Resources Group (URG) and came under immediate gunfire by the guards.

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