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Two car bombs kill at least 6 in central Baghdad
(AP)
Updated: 2005-11-18 14:11
Two car bombs detonated Friday morning in a central Baghdad residential
neighborhood, killing at least six people and injuring 43 more near an Interior
Ministry building U.S. troops found detainees who showed signs of torture,
police said.
Iraqi emergency workers work to clear rubble
from the site of a collapsed building in central Baghdad after two early
morning explosions, November 18, 2005.
[Reuters] | The blast in the Jadiriyah neighborhood reverberated through the city center,
sent a mushroom cloud hundreds of feet into the air and was followed by sporadic
small arms fire.
Three birds fly in front of a column of
smoke rising over Baghdad after two early morning explosions November 18,
2005.[Reuters] | Associated Press Television News
footage showed several residential buildings collapsed from the blast and a
large crater in the road. Firefighters joined neighbors to dig through the
debris and under toppled blast barriers to pull victims from the rubble.
Police Capt. Nabil Abdel-qadir said the two car bombs were detonated behind
the Interior Ministry building. six civilians were killed and three police
officers were among the injured, he said.
U.S. troops found up to 173 malnourished detainees _ some showing signs of
torture _ in the building on Sunday. Most were believed to be Sunni Arabs, the
main group in the insurgency.
In a statement Thursday, the U.S. Embassy said Iraqi authorities had given
assurances that they will investigate the conditions of detainees found Sunday
night and that the abuse of prisoners "will not be tolerated by either the Iraqi
government" or U.S.-led forces anywhere in the country.
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