"We were in the shops working when all of a sudden it exploded and we saw yellow fumes. Everybody was suffocating," a man at a local hospital told Reuters Television.
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Bomb In Iraq Killed Three
The bomb exploded in Bayaa, in southwest Baghdad
Militants detonated a device in Baghdad Wednesday that released toxic fumes, killing at least three people, in the second such attack with a makeshift "chemical bomb" in two days, police and officials said on Thursday, Reuters reported.
The bomb exploded in Bayaa, in southwest Baghdad. A police source put the death toll at three with 35 more hospitalised. An Interior Ministry source said six were killed and 73 wounded, including many sickened by a gas thought to be chlorine.
"We were in the shops working when all of a sudden it exploded and we saw yellow fumes. Everybody was suffocating," a man at a local hospital told Reuters Television.
On Tuesday, a bomb destroyed a truck carrying chlorine north of Baghdad, killing at least five people and spewing out fumes that left nearly 140 others sick, Iraqi police said.
"We were in the shops working when all of a sudden it exploded and we saw yellow fumes. Everybody was suffocating," a man at a local hospital told Reuters Television.
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