Baghdad: Car bomb kills 13
2004-11-09 12:45
Baghdad - At least 13 people were killed and about 60 injured when a car bomb exploded outside the emergency unit of one of Baghdad's main hospitals late on Monday, medical officials said on Tuesday.
"We have received nine dead - seven policemen, one nurse amd a member of the personnel department at the hospital as well as 42 injured," said Dr Hadi Abdel Karim at the Yarmuk hospital in the south-west of Baghdad where the attack occured.
The capital's City Hospital received another four dead and 14 wounded, said a doctor there, who asked to remain anonymous.
Scores of cars were destroyed when a stolen police car laden with explosives exploded outside Yarmuk on Monday evening, severely damaging the front of the emergency unit.
Just hours early, the hospital had taken in three dead and 45 wounded after suspected car bombs exploded minutes apart outside two churches in Baghdad.
The attacks came as United States and Iraqi forces stormed the rebel enclave of Fallujah in an operation to crush the insurgency in Iraq ahead of elections planned for January.