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Another Baghdad car bomb causes heavy casualties
via Xinhuanet - With PicturesBAGHDAD, June 14 -- At least six people were killed and many others wounded in a Monday morning bombing in central Baghdad, Iraqi police said. They said they still did not have the exact number of casualties due to the chaos at the scene. However, an Iraqi civil defense official put the death toll at 12 while local hospitals reported that they had received more than 20 injured. The bombing occurred after 8:00 a.m. local time at a heavily trafficked commercial street near the Tahrir Square (Liberation Square) when three civilian sport utility vehicles (SUVs) passed by. All the three cars were damaged and the front of a two-story building was torn off. Tahrir Square is at the eastern end of the Jumhuria Bridge across the Tigris River. Angry Iraqis shouted slogans against Americans and setting fire to an American flag. The latest incident followed a car bomb explosion near a US-led coalition base in Baghdad on Sunday, which killed 12 Iraqis and injured 13 others. Posted by: .com 2004-06-14 |
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