An attack on UN office in Baghdad
Iraq, Politics, 6/29/2000

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization FAO has announced that two of its staff were killed in an attack launched by an armed man against FAO's office in Baghdad on Wednesday.

The director of the media department at the FAL headquarters in Rome said that one of the two killed men is Iraqi and the other is international.

He added that the organization has learnt that other persons were seriously wounded in the attack.

A source at the FAO's office in Baghdad reported that the Iraqi security authorities broke into the building and arrested this gunman whose identity nor demands were known.

The source abstained from giving other details about the incidents and the reasons which pushed the gunman to break into FAO's headquarters in Baghdad. But he said that the incident lasted for several hours, noting that every thing returned normal in this headquarters which is situated in al-Jadereyah district, southern Baghdad.

A UN spokesman explained that the attacker asked the gardener who works at the premises of FAO to hand the paper on which his demands were written to the officials at the UN after he had opened fire from his Klashinkov against FAO employees, resulted in killing two and wounding other seven.

Meantime, Fuad Hussein Haidar, the person responsible for the attack said in a press conference in a police station that the sanctions and the death of thousands of children, women and elderly were the reasons for attacking F.A.O's headquarters adding that he fired in order to defend himself when the Iraqi guards came after him.

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