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Last Updated: Saturday, 26 April, 2003, 15:48 GMT 16:48 UK
In pictures: Baghdad arms blast
Munthir Sabirn
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Munthir Sabirn lost six members of his immediate family when the US ammunition dump exploded destroying his home
Site of the explosion
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The explosion has left a crater in the Zafaranyah suburb, southern Baghdad
Men carry a coffin as a woman weeps
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At least six people died in the blast
Family and neighbours mourn over the coffins of the Sabirn family members who died in the explosion
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Most of the victims came from the same family
Two women weeping
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The woman on the right lost two brothers
Two Iraqi men at the site of the explosion
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Residents are in shock
An Iraqi man and child
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People are trying to comfort each other
Two Iraqi women weep
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At least two children were killed in the explosion
Iraqi mourners, leading a procession with coffins carrying the dead, protest in front of American soldiers
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Grief has turned to anger; the funeral procession was also a protest
An Iraqi child walks amid the rubble of the destroyed houses
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Homes have been destroyed too
Residents of the suburb try to gain access after it was sealed off by US troops following the blast
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Some people are now being denied access to the area






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