Baghdad Truck Blast Kills 9, Injures 14

[DemBones DemBones]

Baghdad Truck Blast Kills 9, Injures 14
AP - 3 minutes ago

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC, Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Police on Saturday said nine people died and 14 were seriously wounded in a gas tanker explosion in west Baghdad that occurred just hours after Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld left the capital following a surprise visit.

Initially, police and hospital sources said two died in Friday night's explosion of the butane truck, which was wired with explosives. It blew up in the upscale Mansour district, which houses many foreign missions and is home to top Iraqi government officials.

Police spokesman Lt. Col. Raed Abbas said seven more bodies were discovered on Saturday underneath the rubble of one of the three houses destroyed in the blast.

In the nearby al-Yarmouk Hospital, several of the injured with burn blisters on their blackened faces and limbs cried and shivered in pain.


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[Skittles]

1. just another day in Baghdad

thanks, Bush

[0007]

2. Merry Christmas world!

May you rot in hell junior!

[elperromagico]

3. Some Christmas their families will have.

:(

[jmcgowanjm]

4. of the butane truck, which was wired with explosives.

Drivenat a high rate of speed, then detonated
by the driver.

Sounds like Resistance report
of the 12T Mercedes in Mosul.