Yesterday I called this terrorism. I was mistaken.
The massive blast when a petrol tanker exploded in a fireball after colliding with a bus in the centre of Baghdad today, killing 17 Iraqis, was an accident, said US military investigators.
Iraqi officials, however, maintained it was a suicide bomb run targeting a nearby police station.
“It was a fuel truck that had a traffic accident, caught fire and exploded,” said Captain Jason Beck of the US 1st Armored Division, which oversees security in Baghdad.
”There was no evidence of a bomb.”
Military explosives experts concluded the blast was accidental after conducting crater analysis and other tests at the site, Beck said.
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