GWT: WRAP APTN footage from outskirts of city

Описание: (7 Apr 2003) SHOTLIST

1. British APC swerves towards camera
2. Two Gazelle helicopters fly overhead
3. Two Gazelle helicopters
4. Wide of Iraqi flag on building
5. Fire burning
6. Coalition APCs travel down road
7. Coalition APC with red cross, pans to man loading cart with donkey
8. Damaged buildings
9. Car with people leaving
10. Burning buildings
11. Tractor and trailer with people

STORYLINE

A convoy of British infantry rolled into Basra from the southern outskirts on Monday in what appeared to be a major move to secure the old section of the city, the last substantial pocket of resistance.

Heavy smoke could be seen in the city as about 700 members of the 3rd Battalion Parachute Regiment moved in a convoy of 50 to 75 vehicles, including jeeps mounted with machine guns and anti-tank missiles.

Other tanks and vehicles from the 7th Armoured Brigade, known as the "Desert Rats", were already in the city.

Basra residents, meanwhile, were reported to have gone on a looting rampage.

APTN filmed locals hauling furniture and carpets out of a hotel.

Iraqis were also seen streaming out of the central Bank of Iraq with chairs, tables, carpets.

They loaded them onto donkey- and horse-drawn carts or stuffed the goods into cars.

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