BAGHDAD, April 5 (Xinhua) -- A
garbage truck bomb went off outside a Sunni Muslim television station in western
Baghdad on Thursday, wounding ten people, an official in the station told
Xinhua.
"A garbage truck bomb parking outside the Baghdad
television and radio station in the Jamia neighborhood in western Baghdad,
detonated at about 1:30 p.m. (0930 GMT)," the official said.
The attack wounded ten people, including four in
critical conditions, he added.
Witnesses at the neighborhood said the blast took
place at the park outside the television station.
"A small truck used to collect garbage detonated in
the park outside the Baghdad TV station. It was a huge blast which smashed all
the window glasses in my house," Lamiaa Muhammad, a housewife, told Xinhua.
The TV station is the mouthpiece of the Iraqi Islamic
Party, a Sunni political party participating in the government.
Shortly after the explosion, the station stopped its
regular program, showing a photo of a mosque with readings from the Muslim holy
book of Quran.
Earlier, a police source gave a different version for
the attack, saying a suicide bomber blew up a garbage truck packed with
explosives near the entrance of base housing U.S. and Iraqi police forces which
is adjacent to the building of Baghdad Radioand TV station in the Jamia
district.
The source put the toll at one civilian killed and
three others wounded, adding that death toll could rise as the powerful blast
damaged and set fire on several nearby buildings.
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