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Two blasts rip through Baghdad, killing 10
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-10-04 15:43
A car bomb exploded at an entrance to the Green Zone, a heavily fortified
area in Baghdad that houses the U.S. Embassy and Iraqi government buildings,
killing at least 10 people and wounding about 76, hospital and military
officials said.
Security personnel attend the scene of a bombing
attack in central Baghdad October 4, 2004. Two blasts shook separate areas
of central Baghdad on Monday, with one car bomb blast near the heavily
defended Green Zone killing at least eight people and wounding 30, doctors
and witnesses said. [Reuters]
U.S.
Army troops guard the site of a
bombing attack in central Baghdad October 4, 2004.
[Reuters] | Less than an hour later, a second
blast ripped through Baghdad's central Saadoun Street causing an unspecified
number of casualties. It was not immediately clear what was targeted.
The first explosion happened shortly before 9 a.m., said Maj. Phil Smith, a
spokesman for the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division.
Yarmouk Hospital received eight bodies and about 50 wounded from the
explosion, Dr. Firas Amin Yarmouk the U.S.-funded Iraqiya TV.
No coalition forces were believed killed in the blast, Smith said.
The second explosion happened at 9:45 a.m., near a number of major hotels.
Bursts of gunfire were heard after the blast and thick black smoke rose from the
scene.
Security personnel
carry a victim of a bombing attack in central Baghdad October 4, 2004. Two
blasts shook separate areas of central Baghdad on Monday, with one car
bomb blast near the heavily defended Green Zone killing at least eight
people and wounding 30, doctors and witnesses said.
[Reuters] | A pair of helicopters circled the area
and troops blocked off the road.
Both the Green Zone and the area around Saadoun Street have been the target
of previous suicide attacks that have killed dozens of people.
Insurgents have been waging a 17-month campaign to undermine the U.S.-backed
interim government and drive the United States and its allies from Iraq.
An
Iraqi man shouts for help to retrieve victims of a bombing attack from a
destroyed vehicle in central Baghdad October 4, 2004. Two bomb blasts
shook separate areas of central Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 10
people and wounding 70, while U.S. and Iraqi forces pursued their
offensive against rebel strongholds elsewhere in the country.
[Reuters]
Wounded Iraqi men are
tended to in Yarmouk hospital after a bombing attack in
central Baghdad October 4, 2004.
[Reuters] |
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