Market day massacre

IRAQIS said more than 50 people were killed yesterday in an air raid on a Baghdad market after the United States unleashed some of the heaviest air strikes of the war on the capital.

In Baghdad, Dr Osama Sakhari at Al Noor Hospital said he had counted 55 people killed and more than 47 wounded in the air raid on the market in the city’s Shula neighbourhood.

Earlier, US defence officials said a radar-avoiding B-2 stealth bomber had dropped two earth-shattering 4,600-pound bombs on a communications centre in downtown Baghdad.