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Insurgents kill nine more in Iraq bombing
(AP)
Updated: 2005-09-30 19:45
U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad has been struggling to negotiate changes to
the charter in hopes of winning Sunni Arab support, and senior U.S. officials in
Washington have said they are confident that Iraq's draft constitution will be
approved. But those officials also have said that if the constitution is
defeated, Iraq could descend into anarchy.
On Friday, a car bomb exploded in a bustling vegetable market in the mostly
Shiite city of Hillah, killing at least nine people, including three women and
two children, and wounding 41, said Dr. Mohammed Beirum of Hillah General
Hospital. The vehicle was parked when it detonated at about 9:30 a.m. in the
city 60 miles south of Baghdad.
As Iraqi police and soldiers sealed off the Al-Sharia vegetable market,
emergency workers lifted the wounded and into ambulances from streets covered
with pools of blood and debris.
In Iraq, the weekend is Friday and Saturday, and before heading to services
in mosques at midday Friday, the Muslim day of worship, many Iraqis shop in
their local markets.
Jawad Khazim, 45, who witnessed the Hillah attack from a nearby street, said
he was temporarily deafened by the explosions. "I saw a fireball rising from the
marketplace, and vegetables and human flesh flying through the air," he said.
He condemned the insurgents for trying to kill Shiites and questioned why
they would target a crowded marketplace where minority Sunnis and Christians
could also be.
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