Second makeshift gas bomb kills 3 in Baghdad
Source: Reuters
(Adds previous attack in January) BAGHDAD, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Militants detonated a bomb in Baghdad that killed at least three people and released toxic fumes, in the second such attack with a makeshift "chemical bomb" in two days, police and officials said on Thursday. The bomb exploded in Bayaa, in southwest Baghdad, on Wednesday. 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. In January, 16 people were killed when a suicide bomber using a dump truck with a chlorine tank blew himself up in the western city of Ramadi. The U.S. military said at the time there were no injuries from the release of the chlorine gas.
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