Sixty died, 76 wounded in an attack in Baghdad BAGHDAD - Sixty people were killed and 76 wounded in an attack with the trapped van Saturday morning close to a very animated market of Sadr City, large district Shiite of Baghdad, according to a new assessment.
"the new assessment of the explosion which took place towards 10H00 (06H00 GMT) close to market Al-Oula of Sadr City raises with 60 dead and 76 wounded", declared a source of safety.
The attack, clerk at one hour of great multitude, caused enormous destruction around the principal market of the populeux district. It was made, according to witnesses, by a van charged with explosive products, which had been parked with only ten meters of the market of vegetables, fruits and other products.
Certain witnesses on the spot indicated that the van was driven by a kamikaze. But, the sources of safety privilege the thesis of the booby-trapped car parked close to the entry of the market.
At least a score of cars were destroyed by the explosion and of many ambulances and vehicles of the firemen were on the spot, two hours after the attack.
The frontages of many buildings around the market were broken and the fragments of glass mixed with the puddle pools with blood whereas private cars continued to evacuate the casualties.
The majority of the victims were directed towards the hospital Imam Ali, the principal hospital of the large district Shiite.
The preceding assessment of sedentary source made state of 33 killed and 41 wounded.
According to sources' of safety, the attack aimed at a patrol of police force but the majority of the victims are the civil ones.
At once after the deflagration, a long column of white smoke rose in the sky in the North-East of the capital where a safety device is in place since 14 June mobilizing more than 50.000 police officers and Iraqi soldiers and the American soldiers.
In another attack, three commandos of police force were killed and two wounded in the explosion of a bomb in Baghdad Jadida, in the east of the capital, indicated another source of safety.
In the south of the capital and more precisely with Doura, inhabitants, alerted by odors stinking, discovered a fall collective into a house in construction.
"Six trades of decomposition were extracted from the uninhabited house", declared the source of safety, without being able to give precise details on the identity of the people who were buried there.
