Special report: Tension escalates in Iraq

    BAGHDAD, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- At least two people were killed and up to 13 others wounded when a car bomb went off near a U.S. patrol on a main road in Mansur district in western Baghdad on Tuesday, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua.

    "A car bomb parking on the 14th Ramadan Street in Mansur district detonated at about 12:20 p.m. (0820 GMT) near a passing U.S. patrol," the source said on condition of anonymity.

    "Our first report said that two people were killed and 13 others injured along with setting at least three cars on fire and damaging several nearby shops," he said.

    It was not clear whether there are any casualties among the U.S. soldiers, the source added.

    "I saw a U.S. Hummer was hit and set ablaze," Abu Saad, 40, a witness at the scene told Xinhua.

    The U.S. military has no immediate word on the incident. Enditem