Several rockets were fired at a Baghdad hotel complex housing foreign reporters and businessmen, scoring a direct hit on the Sheraton Hotel and injuring up to four Iraqis, a US soldier and witnesses said.
A minivan containing nine improvised rocket-launchers exploded midway through the attack, destroying the van, US troops said, according to AFP.
"The vehicle pulled up in range of the Sheraton Hotel and fired a series of rockets toward it," said a US army captain who would only give his name as Mayo.
"At some point during the attack evidently the ordnance on the vehicle exploded."
The rockets were fired across central Baghdad's Firdoos Square.
A kitchen worker at a social club on the square was badly wounded by shrapnel.
Three civilian workers at the nearby high-security Baghdad Hotel were also wounded, apparently as a falling rocket hit a car, security officials there said. (albawaba.com)
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