Iraqi looters die in ammunition dump blast

Several looters who broke into a former Iraqi army ammunition dump were killed today when they set off an accidental explosion, a spokesman for Polish-led peacekeepers said.

Iraqi looters die in ammunition dump blast

Several looters who broke into a former Iraqi army ammunition dump were killed today when they set off an accidental explosion, a spokesman for Polish-led peacekeepers said.

About “four to six” Iraqis died in the night-time blast in the desert about 180 kilometres south-west of Karbala, said Colonel Robert Strzelecki, revising an initial statement that about 20 had died.

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