Monday 28 February 2005, 11:35 Makka Time, 8:35 GMT
According to police sources at least 100 people lost their life and 130 were wounded when a car bomb exploded this morning at 9.30 am (0630 GMT) close to a medical centre of the mainly Shia town of al-Hilla (about 55 miles south of Baghdad).
As reported by al-Jazeera, a witness from the Reuters press agency saw ambulance workers bringing dead bodies away from the area.
These people were all waiting to get medical cards they needed for burocracy purposes in order to applying for government jobs.
Iraqi journalist Talib al-Janabi referred that the suicide bomber entered the barricades with his car and then blew himself just in front of the building.
Firefighters, US and Iraqi forces immediately came to manage the difficult situation but al-Janabi also saw that 30 to 40 people were killed, the others wounded.[official reports about the exact number of dead are not available].
Mohammed Dia, for the Hilla general hospital said, "All the hospital's rooms, even those used for cardiology, are filled with the wounded."
Meanwhile another car bomb exploded in al-Musayib city, north of al-Hilla, we still don't know anything else.
Il Romanaccio at 11:27 AM
