- BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four
Reuters staff were injured in a blast on Tuesday at Baghdad's Palestine
Hotel, the base for much of the foreign media in the Iraqi capital, Reuters
correspondents in the hotel said.
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- It was not immediately clear if there were other casualties
after a blast struck an upper floor of the high-rise building on the eastern
banks of the Tigris river. Some observers said it looked like a tank or
artillery shell had hit the building.
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- U.S. tanks, artillery and warplanes have been pounding
Iraqi forces in the city center all morning. Iraqis have fired back with
some artillery and rocket-propelled grenades.
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- A Reuters reporter, photographer, television cameraman
and television technician were taken to hospital. The extent of their injuries
was not immediately clear.
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