Chaos, Bloodshed in Baghdad Blasts

[Flagg]

Chaos, Bloodshed in Baghdad Blasts




(Reuters photographer Peter Andrews was on the scene when four blasts killed dozens of people in central Baghdad on Tuesday. This is his account.)



By Peter Andrews


BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The first blast, one of four which struck at Shi'ite Muslims marking the religious holiday of Ashura Tuesday, went off just behind us on a road we had walked down only minutes before.


My driver Saad Shalash and I turned on foot and started toward the bomb site some 150 meters (yards) away. Minutes later a second bomb exploded, again just behind us.


It was chaos. We turned down a small side street. People were running and crying, carrying the wounded and trying to get away.


As we reached the end of the street, the third blast sounded. I was thrown to the ground. Saad was hit in the arm by shrapnel. I had to scrape pieces of other people's flesh off his shirt.


We ran in the other direction. I lost Saad, everyone was panicking. And then there was a fourth blast, all in the space of 10 or 15 minutes. Ambulances wailed. People ran backwards and forwards like crazy.


I went to the scene and saw bodies piled onto a wooden cart, bloody wounds and people screaming.

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[Bhaisahab]

1. thats some scary shit n/t

[Flagg]

2. indeed

"Some angry men came up to me with machine guns. They were shouting "No America, no America" and threatened to kill me. "

[Moderator]

3. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x393782