[25 December 2004] BAGHDAD,(Saba)- A gas tanker truck wired with explosives blew up in a west Baghdad neighborhood Friday, killing two persons, wounding 19 and lighting up the night sky with a fireball, just hours after Defense
Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld left the capital.

On Saturday, a spokesman for the al-Yarmouk Hospital said that one of the injured died overnight of severe burns.

The butane truck was parked near the Libyan Embassy in the Mansour district,an upscale district where many foreigners live and embassies are located,police said. Residents said they could hear small-arms fire immediately after the blast.

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