Car bombing in Baghdad kills 25
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-02-28 16:05

A suicide car bomber drove into a crowd of people applying for work in a government office south of Baghdad and detonated his explosives on Monday, killing 25 people and wounded 71, a senior Interior Ministry official and witnesses said.

The attack occurred in Hilla, about 60 miles south of Baghdad, where a suicide car bomber drove into a crowd looking for work at the government office, witnesses said.

The Interior Ministry official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said 25 people were killed and 71 wounded, and added that the death toll was likely to rise.

Dozens of bodies could be seen laying on the ground after the blast, and half a dozen ambulances ferried casualties to a nearby hospital, witnesses said.

The huge blast damaged nearby shops and parked cars, and sent panicked people fleeing.

Iraqi police officers look at one of their vehicles destroyed by a roadside bomb in western Baghdad February 28, 2005.[Reuters]

In a separate attack in Musayyib, about 20 miles north of Hillah, another car bomb exploded at a police checkpoint, killing at least one policeman and wounding several others, police said on condition of anonymity.

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