Baghdad: Dozens of kids dead
2004-09-30 14:06
Baghdad - At least 41 people were killed, most of them children, and scores wounded in three almost simultaneous car bombings across western Baghdad on Thursday, hospital officials said.
"We have 41 dead - three men and one woman and the rest were children," the morgue director at the capital's Yarmuk Hospital, Naji Shitshan, said.
Two bombs went off at about 13:00 close to the site of a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new water pumping station on the western side of the city, a United States military spokesperson said.
Almost simultaneously, another car bomb exploded near an Iraqi national guard checkpoint about 1km south of the site of water pumping station.
The three bombings in western Baghdad following a car bombing earlier that killed one US soldier and two Iraqi policemen and wounded 10 Iraqis and three US soldiers.
- AFP