Car Bomb Kills at Least 19 in Baghdad

05/28/2007

BAGHDAD (AP) - A car bomb exploded in central Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 19 people and wounding 46, police and hospital officials said.

The bomb went off at 2 p.m. in the Sinak commercial district on the east side of the Tigris River.

Ghaith Karim, a 38-year-old Shiite cloth merchant, said he saw fire ball and heard the loud blast.

"It was tremendous. I felt the ground was shaking," Karim said. "When I reached the scene, I found legs, charred pieces of bodies and pools of blood. Casualties were being evacuated by civilian cars. Firefighters battled to extinguish the fire."

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