Posted on 02/28/2005 12:19:55 AM PST by HAL9000
HILLA (Iraq) - Thirty-two people were killed and 45 others wounded in the attack with the booby-trapped car made Monday with Hilla, according to the director of the hospital of the city located at 100 km in the south of Baghdad."the number of killed reached 32 and that of casualties 45", declared with the AFP Doctor Mohammed Dia, director of the principal hospital of the city, chief town of the province of Babylon.
"All the rooms of the hospital, even those of the service of cardiology, are full with casualties", it added, specifying that ten of the casualties were in a "very serious" state.
The preceding provided assessment of police source gave a report of ten killed and 15 wounded in the attack made in the medium of a crowd of civils servant gathered for a medical examination.
"Ten people were killed and fifteen others wounded when a booby-trapped car exploded in the medium of a crowd of civils servant gathered for medical examinations in a center of care close to the seat of the municipality", had indicated the lieutenant of police force Kazem Maamouri.
The explosion took place, according to him, with 09h30 (06h30 GMT) and booby-trapped car it was parked close to the center of care located in an animated district.
The civils servant, of which some were laid off after the fall of the mode of Saddam Hussein in April 2003, were gathered for a medical examination before their rehabilitation in the administrative services of the province, according to the same senior police officer.
The ambulances are rushes towards the place of the explosion to transport killed and the casualties, according to a correspondent of the AFP which saw the remains of the booby-trapped car scattered in the district which counts many trade.
AP News AlertBAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- An Interior Ministry official says a suicide car bomb south of Baghdad has killed 25 people and wounded 71.
The demented offspring of the Death Cult strikes again.
I hear now 100 killed and 113 wounded
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