第1个回答 2007-08-07
CNN News
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A suicide bomber drove an explosives-laden truck into a village near the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar on Monday, killing at least 28 people and wounding 50 others, an Iraqi army official said.
Samir Jawaad, 6, is treated Monday after a roadside bomb exploded in the Iraqi capital's Zafaraniya district.
At least 19 of those killed were children, Tal Afar Mayor Najim Abdullah al-Jabouri said.
The blast left a 10-foot crater in the ground and damaged 10 homes in the Shiite Turkmen village of Qubbak, about six miles (10 kilometers) northeast of Tal Afar, the army official told CNN.
In Baghdad, three roadside bombs detonated in various neighborhoods, killing at least 11 people and wounding 33 others, according to the Iraqi Interior Ministry.
Rescuers seek 6 trapped in Utah coal mine
2.(CNN) -- Rescue workers are drilling into a central Utah mountain "using every means known to mankind" in hope of rescuing six coal miners trapped after a cave-in Monday morning, the mine's operator told reporters. Rescue workers had not made contact with the miners trapped inside the Crandall Canyon mine outside Huntington, Utah, by Monday afternoon. But they had moved to within 1,700 feet of their last known position before fallen rock and debris stopped them, said Bob Murray, CEO of Murray Energy, the parent company of the mine's operator.
He said teams are bringing machines in to dig through that debris, and a helicopter carried a drill rig to the top of the mountain to bore into the chamber where the men are believed to be. But he said the fastest way would be to reopen mine entrances that were sealed in 2004 and go into a tunnel that would bring rescuers to about "100 feet or so" from the chamber.
"The idea is to get a hole into where they are. They can be in a chamber there that's 1,000 feet long, or they could be dead. There's no way of knowing right now, and what we need to do is get access to that chamber."
The process could take 48 hours, he said. But if the men are still alive, "There's water and air for far beyond that." (Posted 5:50 p.m.)