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Baghdad car bomb kills 3
31/05/2004 13:32 - (SA)
Baghdad - At least three people, including a woman, were killed and more than 20 wounded on Monday when at least one car bomb exploded in a western Baghdad neighbourhood.
The blast happened on Kindi Street in front of a house belonging to Naim Haddad, a former senior Baath official from Saddam Hussein's regime.
The house of the former Baath official, who was slightly wounded in the leg, was completed devastated by the blast. His wife and three children were also wounded in the explosion.
Yet he told reporters he did not believe he was the target of the attack. "I was not specifically targeted, this is part of the daily violence which grips this country," he said.
It was thought there might have been more than one car bomb. One vehicle was on fire and the explosion appeared to have blown a huge crater in this street of the Harthiyah neighbourhood and smashed windows all around.
A large number of ambulances were seen rushing to the nearest hospital while firefighters were working to extinguish the fire and US troops tried to keep the crowd at bay.
At one point, soldiers had to fire shots in the air to break up the protestors, some of whom were chanting anti-US slogans.
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