51 Dead in Car Bomb Explosion in Baghdad

6/17/2008
Justin Zaremba
51 people were killed and 75 were wounded in an explosion resulting from a car bomb in a Baghdad market.

At least 51 people were killed and 75 people were wounded Tuesday due to a car bomb explosion in a Shiite neighborhood market in Baghdad, Iraq, AP reports.



The explosion hit a crowded bus terminal near a market in Huriya, a district in the northwest of Baghdad. Huriya once contained a large population of Sunnis. Many Sunnis were killed or driven out by Shiite militias and death squads.



According to an Iraqi police officer at the scene, Iraqi and American troops were attending a neighborhood meeting nearby.



The police officer said that after the blasts, people angrily surrounded Humvees and started throwing rocks and other objects. A rumor swept the crowd of frantic survivors that there was still one car bomb left that had yet to be detonated.



An official at the Interior Ministry said that the casualty toll was the worst for any attack in Baghdad since early March, when a two-stage bomb blast in the Karada shopping district killed at least 54 people and wounded 123.

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