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Bombing in Baghdad Marketplace Kills Civilians

Aired March 29, 2003 - 04:06   ET

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DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Right now we want to check on a bombing that took place in Baghdad. And for more on that, Rym Brahimi is joining us from Amman, Jordan -- Rym.
RYM BRAHIMI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Daryn, hospital sources I spoke to just an hour ago say something between 47 and 57 people were killed in that bombing in a marketplace, a very popular marketplace in Baghdad. The Ministry of Information's figures put the number of dead at 58. The hospital sources say that there's bound to be a rising death toll, a lot of wounded.

It happened at 6:00 p.m. in a very, very popular area northwest of Baghdad at a time when people are really -- it's a time that people really go shopping. It's sort of rush hour even in Baghdad. And it happened also that the marketplace is actually near a hospital where doctors were already treating the wounded from a previous bombing that killed 14 or 15 people in...

COSTELLO: Rym, I'm sorry. Rym, I'm sorry, I'm going to go ahead and interrupt you, because our British military briefing is beginning right now in Kuwait City.

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Aired March 29, 2003 - 04:06   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Right now we want to check on a bombing that took place in Baghdad. And for more on that, Rym Brahimi is joining us from Amman, Jordan -- Rym.
RYM BRAHIMI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Daryn, hospital sources I spoke to just an hour ago say something between 47 and 57 people were killed in that bombing in a marketplace, a very popular marketplace in Baghdad. The Ministry of Information's figures put the number of dead at 58. The hospital sources say that there's bound to be a rising death toll, a lot of wounded.

It happened at 6:00 p.m. in a very, very popular area northwest of Baghdad at a time when people are really -- it's a time that people really go shopping. It's sort of rush hour even in Baghdad. And it happened also that the marketplace is actually near a hospital where doctors were already treating the wounded from a previous bombing that killed 14 or 15 people in...

COSTELLO: Rym, I'm sorry. Rym, I'm sorry, I'm going to go ahead and interrupt you, because our British military briefing is beginning right now in Kuwait City.

TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com.