DOHA, Qatar March 28 —
Arabic language television stations reported Friday that U.S.
missile struck a market in western Baghdad, killing more than 50
people.
Al Arabiya television said at least 52 people died in the Friday
afternoon attack on the market in a residential area. Al Jazeera
television put the death toll at 55.
Al Jazeera showed the injured, many of them children, lying in
hospital beds with bandages on theur heads and faces. One boy had a
blood-soaked bandage on his nose and cried softly as a man and woman
sobbed.
photo credit
and caption:
U.S. Marines with India Company,
3rd Battalion., 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division walks with a
local man while patroling a rural area south of Baghdad, Iraq
on Friday, March 28, 2003. (AP Photo/Laura
Rauch)
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