![]() Zafaraniya, in south-eastern Baghdad, is a religiously mixed but majority Shia area. The Iraqi authorities say a car bomb was responsible for that explosion. Iraqi officials said Sunni militants fired a Katyusha rocket into the four-storey building.Īs bystanders tried pulling bodies and injured people from the rubble, another blast occurred nearby, causing more casualties. "From the extent of the damage and some remains, it is clear that the explosions were caused by bombs and rockets," interior ministry spokesman Col Saddoun Abu al-Ula was quoted as saying by AP. ![]() Meanwhile, Iraqi experts have conducted their own examination of the area and reached a different conclusion. However, the US headquarters in Baghdad announced it was holding a deeper investigation into the explosions. Maj Gen William Caldwell said the first explosion then set off secondary blasts.īaghdad's Zafaraniya district after Sunday's explosions The fighting began after Iraqi soldiers raided the religious school of an anti-American cleric, Mahmoud al-Hassani.Īmerican and Iraqi officials are giving conflicting versions of a series of explosions on Sunday that killed at least 57 people in Baghdad.Ī US military spokesman said American investigators had been to the scene of the blasts in the Zafaraniya district and concluded that nothing more than a "significant gas explosion" was to blame. In Karbala, south of Baghdad, a curfew has been imposed after heavy fighting broke out between gunmen and Iraqi security forces.Ī local health official told the Associated Press news agency that six people had been killed in the clashes. Last week, the PUK's offices in southern Iraq were ransacked after the party's official newspaper published an article which alleged a Shia cleric was fanning sectarian tension in Kirkuk. Mosul is a religiously and ethnically mixed city 390km (240 miles) north of the capital, Baghdad.Ī police spokesman said the bomber detonated a truck full of explosives in the PUK office car park.Īt least four Kurdish peshmerga security personnel and five civilians were killed. Dozens of people were injured in the attack. Police officials have warned that the death toll could climb as rescuers search the rubble. The PUK is Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's political party. Nine Iraqis have been killed in a suicide bomb attack on an office of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. The wounded were taken to a hospital in Arbil
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