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Large explosion rocks central Baghdad, 15 dead

A suspected car bomb exploded outside the main US military and civilian headquarters in Baghdad on Sunday, killing about 15 Iraqis, wounding several other people and setting vehicles on fire.


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Large explosion rocks central Baghdad
A suspected car bomb exploded outside the main US military and civilian headquarters in Baghdad on Sunday, killing about 15 Iraqis, wounding several other people and setting vehicles on fire.

Reuters Television footage showed injured people lying near a gate to the high-security "Green Zone," the US civilian and military base in the Iraqi capital. Cars were on fire in the background.

An official at the US-led administration put the toll at 15 dead and 25 wounded.

A US military spokesman said a car bomb was believed to have been detonated outside the gate.

One man could be seen lying on the ground with only a slight twitch in his knees showing he was alive. Another was slumped on the kerb.

Ambulances were on the way to the scene, sirens wailing, and US Army armored vehicles came out onto the street.

Insurgents resisting the US occupation regularly attack the US military and those they see as cooperating with the occupiers.

The last major attack in the capital was a car bomb which went off outside a major city restaurant on New Year's Eve, killing at least eight people and wounding 30.

Source: agencies


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