Iraqi VP unharmed as car bomb explodes; 10 killed, a'math of Sunday's bombing

Описание: (26 Feb 2007)
Mansour neighbourhood
++ CAR BOMB ATTACK THAT INJURED IRAQI VICE PRESIDENT AND KILLED AT LEAST 10 PEOPLE++
1. Wide of the site of blast
2. Various of military and police vehicles at the site
3. Various of ambulances parked at the scene
4. Ambulance speeding away
Nidhal Street, central Baghdad
5. Wide of street, site of another blast
6. Bloodstain on road
7. Iraqi soldier examining location
8. Damaged minibus, zoom in to shards of glass and blood inside the vehicle
9. Wide of cars driving around broken glass on street
Talbiyah neighbourhood
10. Exterior of college, site of Sunday's blast
11. Mid of sign reading: "College of Economics and Administration"
12. Various of area around college with shards of glass littering the ground
13. Tilt down from blood spattered ceiling to officials inspecting the blast site, including Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Dhiyab al-A'jili
14. Various of walls pockmarked with shrapnel
15. Officials being shown round the site
16. Scattered bloodied belongings of victims on ground
17. The minister and other officials reading verse from holy Koran, pan to location of the bombing
18. The minister and other officials leaving the college
Sadr City
19. Sign reading: "Imam Ali bin Ibi Talib Hospital"
20. Grieving women gathered around a coffin
21. Men carrying coffin to minibus
STORYLINE:
The Iraqi vice president escaped an apparent assassination attempt in Baghdad on Monday when he suffered bruises and was taken to hospital after a parked car bomb exploded near a building where he was attending a conference, an aide said.
At least 10 people were killed and 18 wounded in the blast, which appeared to be aimed at a municipalities office in western Baghdad.
Adel Abdul-Mahdi, a Shiite and one of two Iraqi vice presidents, was knocked to the ground by the blast and was taken to hospital for examination, according to an aide who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The aide said the vice president was giving a speech when the blast hit.
The conference, which included municipal and public works officials, was in the upscale Mansour neighbourhood that houses many embassies and has been the scene of kidnappings which have been blamed on militants.
Iraqi's other vice president is Tariq al-Hashemi, a Sunni.
In another incidence of violence on Monday, a mortar round landed in Nidhal Street, central Baghdad, killing one person and wounding two others, officials said.
The blast occurred in an area housing a church, a hotel used by foreign contractors and other government facilities, such as banks and hospitals.
Also on Monday, Iraq's Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Dhiyab al-A'jili, paid a visit to a business college in Baghdad's Talbiyah neighbourhood, the site of Sunday's suicide bombing that killed at least 41 people.
The minister, along with other officials, inspected the College of Economics and Administration and recited verses from the Koran next to locations where the remains of some of the dead students were believed to have been buried.
Belongings of the victims still littered the college yard, along with shards of glass.
Meanwhile, grieving relatives of victims of the suicide bombing flocked to the Imam Ali hospital in Sadr City early on Monday to collect the remains of their loved ones for burial.

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