Blasts rock Karbala
2003-12-27 15:32
Karbala - Four people were killed and 60 wounded, including Karbala's governor, as explosions on Saturday rocked a university campus and the governor's building in this Shi'ite holy city, hospital sources said.
Governor Akram al-Yasseri told AFP from his hospital bed that "a car bomb or rocket was the cause of the explosions".
Dr Saad Nasrawi at Al-Hussein general hospital said that four bodies were brought in after the explosions, while his hospital was treating 60 wounded people.
- SAPA