Car bomb explodes outside Baghdad hospital, many victims

BAGHDAD (AFP) - A car bomb exploded outside the emergency unit of one of Baghdad`s main hospitals in the southwest of the Iraqi capital causing an unknown number of victims, an official at the Yarmuk hospital said.
"A car bomb exploded at the gate of the emergency department, there were a lot of people wounded and dead," the official told AFP.
Patients, staff and guards were among the victims, said the official, who declined to give his name.
Just hours early, Yarmuk hospital received three dead and 45 wounded after suspected car bombs exploded just minutes apart outside two churches in Baghdad.
The attacks came as US and Iraqi forces stormed the rebel enclave of Fallujah in an operation to crush the insurgency in Iraq ahead of elections planned for January.

11/08/2004 - 21:28 GMT - AFP