He said three other foreigners had been seriously injured.
"It is an unfortunate and cowardly incident that happened today. Five [non-Iraqi] civilians have been killed and another three civilians severely injured. These people had been helping Iraq to rebuild its power stations and reconstruct its electricity and power generation. Additionally, a number of Iraqis have also been killed and injured," Allawi said.
Allawi did not identify them by nationality. But an Interior Ministry official, Adnan Abd al-Rahman, told the Associated Press that the dead were French.
The car bomb exploded in central Baghdad this morning near a convoy of vehicles. The blast destroyed at least several vehicles and partly demolished a nearby building.
News agencies put the total death toll to up to 12 people, many of the dead apparently killed in the collapsed building.
A number of Iraqis gathered around the damaged vehicles chanting anti-American slogans and hitting the burnt-out cars with sticks.
(AP/Reuters)
"It is an unfortunate and cowardly incident that happened today. Five [non-Iraqi] civilians have been killed and another three civilians severely injured. These people had been helping Iraq to rebuild its power stations and reconstruct its electricity and power generation. Additionally, a number of Iraqis have also been killed and injured," Allawi said.
Allawi did not identify them by nationality. But an Interior Ministry official, Adnan Abd al-Rahman, told the Associated Press that the dead were French.
The car bomb exploded in central Baghdad this morning near a convoy of vehicles. The blast destroyed at least several vehicles and partly demolished a nearby building.
News agencies put the total death toll to up to 12 people, many of the dead apparently killed in the collapsed building.
A number of Iraqis gathered around the damaged vehicles chanting anti-American slogans and hitting the burnt-out cars with sticks.
(AP/Reuters)
