(4 Apr 2010) SHOTLIST
1. Various of smoke billowing from the fortified Green zone
2. Wide of people and police running at blast site, tracks man carrying child
3. Pan from couple rushing from site to injured man shouting, UPSOUND (Arabic): "By God we are not scared"
4. Fire trucks heading to blast site, UPSOUND gun shots
5. Close of Iraqi soldier shouting as injured rush from site
6. Mid of people rushing from site
7. Mid of injured man nursing head wound
8. Wide of men carrying dead body on stretcher, ambulance
9. Various of walking wounded including woman crying
10. Various of police vehicle carrying injured woman
11. Zoom out from Iranian flag to soldiers and embassy officials standing around water-filled crater
12. Mid of people at blast site
13. Pan of blast site to wrecked cars
14. Various of wrecked cars
15. Wide military vehicles
16. Wide exterior of "Ibn al-Nafis Teaching Hospital"
17. Ambulance driving to hospital
18. Injured man on wheelchair being pushed to ward
19. Ambulance driving to hospital
STORYLINE:
Suicide bombers detonated three car bombs near foreign embassies in Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 32 people and wounding 140 others.
Authorities said the blasts went off within minutes of each other, shattering the relative calm in the country since elections last month.
One of the attacks was near the Iranian embassy while the other two were detonated in areas that house several foreign embassies, including those from Egypt and Germany.
A spokesman for the city''s operations command centre said all three explosions were set off by suicide attackers in explosives-laden cars.
Multiple, coordinated bombings in the capital have become a hallmark of al-Qaida in Iraq.
Police officials said at least 18 people were killed outside the Iranian Embassy, where TV footage showed civilians loading casualties into police vehicles and ambulances.
Stunned victims, many in blood-spattered clothes, were fleeing the scene as smoke rose in the background.
One man was cradling a small girl wearing a white dress in his arms.
It was not immediately clear whether anyone from the embassies was among the dead or wounded, but police officials said many of the victims were employees at a nearby state-run bank.
The police spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to release details to the media.
At least 14 were killed in the other explosions, police officials said.
Baghdad''s operations command centre spokesman said at least 140 people were wounded in all three attacks.
Other police officials put the total number of injuries at 185.
The explosion near the Iranian Embassy demolished cars and overturned a minibus outside the embassy wall.
The force of the explosions shook buildings and rattled windows in the centre of the capital and sent huge plumes of smoke over the city.
Iraqi police arrested a man who was suspected of planning to detonate a suicide car bomb near the former German embassy, which is now a bank.
Police said he was taken into custody after being found inside a car loaded with explosives.
Sunday''s blasts which occurred shortly before 11:30 am (local time, 0830 GMT), came after a number of minor blasts overnight and early on Sunday which killed one civilian and injured nine others.
The series of bombings follows an execution-style attack in which at least 24 Sunnis were killed two days ago.
The slayings re-ignited fears of a return to the sectarian fighting that ravaged the country in 2006 and 2007.
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