A bomb hidden under bags of flour, exploded in the disputed city of
Kirkuk on Monday. At least 15 people were killed, including a newborn
girl and a U.S. soldier, and nearly 200 were wounded.
Doctors worked in a scene of bloody pandemonium as wounded were brought to
the emergency room. There was barely room to move. Many of those being
treated appeared to be either very young children or schoolgirls, many
crying with blood spattered on their clothes. Several badly mutilated
dead bodies filled the back of a police pickup truck as a U.S.
helicopter flew overhead.
Sarah Samad, 13, said she had just finished taking an exam and was near
the school gate at the time of the explosion. "The gate fell on my leg
and broke it," she said from her hospital bed.
