World

'Chlorine bomb' hits Iraq village

by AlanEvans | May 16, 2007 at 03:16 am

243 views | 2 Recommendations | 1 comment

Twenty people have been killed and 50 injured in a suspected chlorine bomb in Iraq's Diyala province, police say.

The attack happened in an open-air market in the village of Abu Sayda at about 2000 (1600 GMT) on Tuesday.

A police spokesman in the provincial capital Baquba said doctors at a local hospital believed the nature of victims' burns suggested poison gas.

0 See all footage | View Slideshow

Share: email story | add to any | | facebook | stumbleupon

recommend This comment thread is now closed

René

flagged this story as Good Stuff

at 07:27 on May 16th, 2007

Dig some more on this story. you can do it. This is chilling. Gas gets more victims than just a regular bomb would. Like Saddam did to the Kurds, etc.

AlanEvans, Good stuff.