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Three Reuter staff wounded as Baghdad press hotel hit
BAGHDAD (AFP) Apr 08, 2003
 A journalist, a photographer and a cameraman working for British news agency Reuters were wounded Tuesday when a hotel in Baghdad was hit during fighting across the capital, AFP correspondents said.

Reuters has its offices on the 15th floor of the Palestine Hotel which houses most of the foreign media covering the Iraq war.

The 15th and 17th floors of the hotel were struck, blowing out windows as fierce exchanges raged on the 20th day of the US-led war.

A hole had been knocked into the hotel facade laying bare the metal structure of a column running past a balcony.

Dubai's Al-Arabiya television channel said its bureau on the 17th floor also suffered damage.

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