Car bomb kills 45 in Baghdad
More than 45 people were reported killed and 150 injured when a car bomb blew up outside a police station in a town 30 miles south of Baghdad today.
Colonel William Darley, a US military spokesman, said the blast occurred in Iskandariyah. He said no US or other coalition forces were killed or injured.
Arab television stations said about 50 people had been killed, but the reports could not be immediately confirmed.
A hospital doctor in the town was quoted as saying he thought 50 people had died.
Meanwhile, Baghdad’s Convention Centre, which houses the US military press centre and other coalition facilities, was closed today.
Colonel Darley said there had been “some kind of threat” against the facility but he gave no further details.
“There is a search going on in the building,” Williams said. He said bomb sniffing dogs detected something suspicious but “they don’t know what it is. The dogs are doing their check.”
