공지사항입니다 Several feared dead in Iraq blast

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Several feared dead in Iraq blast Thursday, October 9, 2003 Posted: 0841 GMT ( 4:41 PM HKT) The blast took place six months to the day after the fall of Baghdad.
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• Post-mortem on Sky journalist • Blast near ministry complex • White House to expand Iraq role • Turkish Cabinet wants troops • Iraq rebuffs U.S. mobile system SPECIAL REPORT • Transition of Power • Life after War • CNN/Money: Rebuilding Iraq • War in Iraq • Special Report YOUR E-MAIL ALERTS Iraq Baghdad or Create your own Manage alerts | What is this? BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- At least one person is reported to have been killed in a suspected suicide car bombing in front of a police station in a Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad. Meanwhile Thursday, a Spanish diplomat was shot dead as he left his residence in the Iraqi capital, a Spanish foreign ministry spokesman said. The victim, Jose Antonio Bernal Gomez, 30, was a military attach? Unconfirmed Iraqi police sources said the death toll could be more than a dozen. U.S.-led coalition officials did not say if anyone was killed or injured but video from the scene showed a body -- covered by a sheet -- being carried away. The bomb exploded at 8.30 a.m. (0530 GMT) as policemen lined up in the courtyard of the police station for the morning roll call, The Associated Press reported. Chaos erupted shortly after Thursday's explosion, which came six months to the day after U.S.-led forces toppled statues of ousted president Saddam Hussein in Baghdad. A crowd gathered near the Jamila police station in Sadr City -- a mainly Shiite Muslim area formerly known as Saddam City that had been largely peaceful until now, according to CNN's Baghdad Bureau Chief Jane Arraf. Some threw stones after a U.S. soldier accidentally fired his weapon, according to a CNN news crew at the scene. Hours later, U.S. soldiers and Iraqi police were working to get the crowd under control. A mosque near the scene blared out warnings urging the thousands of residents who had gathered at the station to leave the area for fear of a second booby-trapped car. "It was a huge blast and everything became dark from the debris and sand. I was thrown to the ground," local storeholder Mohammed Adnan, 35, told AP. Fakhriya Jarallah, who sells vegetables opposite the police station, said two of her sons were repairing a wall of the police compound when the blast occurred. "I ran across the road like a mad woman to find out what happened to my sons. But thanks to God they are both safe," she said. The bombing came just a day after more than 2,000 Shiite Muslims protested in Baghdad over the detention of a Shiite cleric who was arrested for storing weapons. (Full story) Imam Mu'ayyad Al Khazraji and his assistant, Abdel Jalil Wakiya, also known as Dr. Jalil, were held Monday for having assault rifles, grenades and ammunition at a holy site, said a spokesman with the Army's 82nd Airborne Division.