Police station hit inside Green Zone, injured in hospital

(4 Dec 2004) 1. Plume of thick smoke billowing at a distance, zoom in to smoke rising behind building 2. Smoke plume rising 3. Zoom in to more smoke rising behind building, AUDIO: automatic gunfire 4. Various of Al-Karkh Police Station, traces of smoke lingering 5. Men standing in group, US soldiers walk pass 6. US military tank 7. US soldiers next to military vehicle 8. Various of smoke rising behind building 9. Various of ambulances racing through traffic 10. Ambulances come to a screeching halt Al-Yarmouk hospital 11. Paramedics unload man from ambulance onto stretcher 12. Pan of doctor working on injured man on hospital bed 13. Doctor wipes injured man's face 14. Various of wounded man on stretcher hooked up to medical equipment 15. Doctor looks at x-rays 16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ahmad Qassim, Doctor al-Yarmouk Hospital: "We have received many patients, injured patients from blast injury. We don't have any dead, injured patients." 17. Man laying on hospital bed wearing bloody shirt 18. Injured person on hospital wearing cast, pan to bloody leg 19. People standing in hospital ward STORYLINE: A car bomb exploded next to an Iraqi police station just outside Baghdad's Green Zone on Saturday, killing six Iraqi policemen and wounding 10, an Iraqi security official said. It was the second major attack in two days targeting Iraqi police in the capital. The explosion occurred at about 9:30 a.m. (0630 GMT) near a checkpoint leading to the heavily fortified area which houses the offices of the interim Iraqi government and several foreign missions, including the US Embassy. Bursts of automatic gunfire were heard following the blast. An Iraqi National Guard official at the scene, speaking on condition of anonymity, said six Iraqi policemen died in the attack and 10 more were wounded. US Embassy spokesman Bob Callahan said the car bomb detonated close to a checkpoint. He said there were no coalition casualties, but added that Iraqis had been injured in the blast. Iraqi police sealed off the area, barring reporters from the scene. One policeman told reporters that the car bomb targeted a police station opposite an entrance to the Green Zone. US military spokesman Major Jay Antonelli confirmed the blast had occurred near Checkpoint 3, which is close to the Convention Centre - a building next to the Green Zone where the American military and embassy regularly stage meetings - and the nearby al-Rashid Hotel, which houses diplomats and foreign contractors. A police station and various government buildings, including the foreign and housing ministries, are also close to the area where the explosion occurred. On Friday, 11 carloads of gunmen drove up to the police station in the city's western Amil district and attacked it with rocket-propelled grenades and small-arms fire, killing 16 policemen. Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's militant group claimed responsibility for the attack. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...