ALL HELL IS BREAKING OUT OVER THERE!
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A car bomb exploded in a business district of central Baghdad on Tuesday morning, and a police officer said at least seven people were killed and 16 wounded.
The blast, which occurred near a cinema, sent a huge plume of black smoke into the sky. An Associated Press reporter at the scene saw rescue workers carrying bloodied bodies away on stretchers.
A police officer with the Interior Ministry said on condition of anonymity that at least seven people were killed and 16 wounded by a suicide car bomb that exploded just as a U.S. military convoy of Humvees and armored vehicles was passing.
The U.S. military confirmed a car bomb attack in the area but provided no other details.