Germany - Mortar Attack On Military Base

(29 Jun 1996) T/I: 10:08:43


A British military barracks in the suburbs of Osnabrueck in northern Germany came under a mortar attack on Friday (28/6), believed to have been launched by the Irish Republican Army. The blast, which caused no injuries but extensive damage, involved missiles fired from the back of a British-registered vehicle parked outside the army compound.

SHOWS:

OSNABRUECK, GERMANY, 28/6
MS fleet of police cars draw up
WS fire trucks at scene
MS soldiers at base gate, pull back to WS; WS base
MS building on base; pull out to WS car park
Woman VOXPOP in German "I heard two small explosions, then a big one ... all my windows blew out and there was a lot of excitement... there was a similar atttack several years ago and it sounded familiar."
British Brigadier Richard Dannatt, Commander of the 4th Armoured Brigade SOT in English: "... An explosion was heard in the vicinity... we discovered a vehicle outside the barracks from which a mortar attack was initiated."
C/way helicopter over scene
Dannatt SOT: "such activity not only places the lives of servicemen ... and civilians at rist and therefore deplore it intensely."
WS presser
WS base with soldiers milling around
WS base with barbed wire
MS police car drives through vicinity

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