4th Update///Baghdad blast casualties jump to 242.BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: The death toll from Sunday's earlier car bomb blasts near the government buildings in Baghdad rose to 62 and the wounded to 180, a security source said. "Sixty-two people were killed and 180 others wounded when two car bombs driven by suicide attackers suicide attacker suicide n → Selbstmordattentäter(in) m(f) went off near the justice ministry and the Baghdad provincial council Provincial councils are organisational bodies within the Gaelic Athletic Association, each made up of several GAA counties. The provincial council is responsible for the organisation of club and inter-county competitions such as the Provincial championships, and the promotion of buildings in central Baghdad," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency, adding search for the victims under the debris debris /de·bris/ (de-bre´) fragments of devitalized tissue or foreign matter. In dentistry, soft foreign material loosely attached to a tooth surface. are still going on. "Most of the victims were civilian pedestrians and motorists," he said. "Employees of the nearby government offices were wounded when the windowpanes were smashed and ceilings destroyed by the powerful explosions," the source said. He noted that security forces sealed off the al-Jumhouriya bridge and the areas of al-Sanak, al-Ahrar and Bab al-Muadham between Baghdad's al-Rasafa and al-Karkh intersections. "The wounded were rushed by ambulances and civilian vehicles to the hospitals of al-Kindi, al-Yarmuk and Ibn al-Nafis Ala-al-din abu Al-Hassan Ali ibn Abi-Hazm al-Qarshi al-Dimashqi (Arabic: علاء الدين أبو الحسن عليّ بن أبي ," he said. He added that the two explosions set a large number of civilian vehicles ablaze, including some that had passengers aboard. Earlier, a security source said the blasts left fifteen people killed and 32 others wounded, adding the casualties are most likely to rise. "One of the two explosive vehicles went off near the justice ministry while the other near the Baghdad provincial council, both adjacent to the green zone," the source added. A U.S. embassy source had said two explosions, probably two car bombs, occurred near the Iranian embassy in Baghdad, prompting the nearby U.S. embassy to announce a state of emergency as sirens Sirens with song, bird-women lure sailors to death. [Gk. Myth.: Odyssey] See : Enchantment sirens their singing so sweet, it lured sailors to their death. [Gk. Myth.: Hamilton, 48] See : Singer wailed and the staff ran to hideouts lest lest conj. For fear that: tiptoed lest the guard should hear her; anxious lest he become ill. [Middle English, from Old English other explosions should take place. A series of coordinated attacks A carefully planned and executed offensive action in which the various elements of a command are employed in such a manner as to utilize their powers to the greatest advantage to the command as a whole. struck key government organizations, one of them near the green zone on August 19, leaving more than 100 people killed and more than one thousand others wounded. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Nouri Kamel Mohammed Hassan al-Maliki (Arabic: نوري كامل المالكي, transliterated Nūrī Kāmil al-Mālikī; born c. later on sent a message to the UN Secretary General and the UN Security Council demanding the "formation of an international panel to investigate the assaults". The central Baghdad's heavily-fortified zone is home to the Iraqi government offices, the headquarters of the Iraqi parliament and the U.S. embassy compound and the British embassy. AmR (I) Copyright 2009 Aswat al-Iraq Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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