Reports are still sketchy, but at least three people were killed and several others were wounded.
Elsewhere in Baghdad, U.S. troops and militia fighters loyal to Shi'a cleric Muqtada al-Sadr clashed sporadically today in Baghdad's Sadr City district. The French AFP news agency reported that at least one of al-Sadr's fighters was killed.
Al-Sadr's militia also clashed today with British forces in the southeastern city of Amarah.
A British military spokesman said that in Al-Basrah, 160 kilometers south of Amarah, three coalition soldiers were wounded when a large explosion occurred near a coalition convoy today.
(AFP/dpa/Reuters/AP)
Elsewhere in Baghdad, U.S. troops and militia fighters loyal to Shi'a cleric Muqtada al-Sadr clashed sporadically today in Baghdad's Sadr City district. The French AFP news agency reported that at least one of al-Sadr's fighters was killed.
Al-Sadr's militia also clashed today with British forces in the southeastern city of Amarah.
A British military spokesman said that in Al-Basrah, 160 kilometers south of Amarah, three coalition soldiers were wounded when a large explosion occurred near a coalition convoy today.
(AFP/dpa/Reuters/AP)
