The two attacks came in a crowded area and time with many people in the street. Officials said yesterday that much of the dead were people walking on the spot for the area of the blasts, along with city officials who were working inside the buildings.
Hundreds of wounded were taken by ambulances or private cars to the nearest hospitals. “It is not like I’m still alive,” Saadi said Hamid, who runs a small shop in the affected area. “The explosion destroyed everything. Nothing remains in place, “said Saadi.
“The walls collapsed and we ran,” he explained by his side Yasmmen Afdahl, an official who works in the building of the Interior, one of the targets of the attacks yesterday. “They took out the victims trapped in the rubble and got into the ambulance,” he said.
A witness lashed out harshly against the security forces who accused them of not doing the job: “His explosive devices not only detect the scent of women,” he cried. “They spend time talking with each other and hanging on their phones instead of controlling the vehicle.
As explained yesterday by Agence France Presse police sources, the darkfall reagents served to a man who had just been kidnapped could escape from his captors. He was in the trunk of a car when one of the blasts occurred. Two of his kidnappers were killed and a third, the driver of the vehicle, was ultimately hurt.
October 27, 2009
Most victims were pedestrians
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