(18 Feb 2007) SHOTLIST
Sadr City, Baghdad
1. Mid of burnt out car on street
2. Mid of burnt out car being towed away
3. Various of damaged shops and smashed glass on the ground
4. Wide of blast scene
New Baghdad
5. Various of black smoke from the car bomb attacks on an outdoor market, rising over Baghdad skyline
New Baghdad
6. Wide of smoke rising up over market stalls
7. Various people at the scene as smoke billows from market area
8. Firefighter and police officer amongst the smoke
9. People gathered at the scene as smoke rises from buildings behind them
10. Close-up of blood stain on ground
11. Mid of market stall with vegetables in foreground
Baghdad's Nahda neighbourhood
12. Exterior of al-Kindi Teaching Hospital
13. Mid of al-Kindi Teaching hospital sign
14. Ambulances arriving at the hospital with the injured
15. Injured being wheeled into hospital on stretchers
16. Injured person being put on stretcher and wheeled away
17. Injured person being wheeled into hospital on stretcher
STORYLINE:
Two car bombs exploded in an outdoor market in Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 56 people and injuring scores of others in the deadliest attack since US and Iraqi forces began a major security push around the capital last week.
The twin blasts tore through the open-air market in the mostly Shiite district of New Baghdad.
The death toll was reported by police and ambulance service officials on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak to media.
At least 127 people were injured, said a police official.
No official casualty figures were immediately announced and local media reports on the overall tally varied.
The explosions toppled wooden vendors' stalls and utility poles.
Ambulances took the wounded to the nearby al-Kindi Teaching hospital.
A third car bomb in the mostly Shiite area of Sadr City also killed at least one person and injured 10, police said.
In other violence, the US military reported the deaths of two American soldiers, one of them in Baghdad who was killed when an insurgent hurled a grenade at his vehicle.
The other soldier died when a patrol came under fire north of Baghdad, the statement said, without giving a specific location.
The attacks come as US and Iraqi forces implement a new security operation to quell violence in the Iraqi capital.
Dubbed Operation Law and Order, the mission, which began on Wednesday, seeks to reclaim the streets from the powerful militias and freelance vigilante groups.
US President George W. Bush has committed 21,500 more American troops to the operation, which is expected to involve a total of 90-thousand Iraqi and US soldiers.
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