Six killed in a blast west of Baghdad

FALLUJA: Six people were killed and eight wounded when a roadside bomb exploded and hit a small truck carrying workers in the western outskirts of Baghdad on Saturday, police and medical sources said.

"It was a roadside bomb that went off near a pick-up carrying construction workers in Zobaa village west of Abu Ghraib," said a police source who asked not to be named.

A medical source at the nearby hospital in Falluja said they had received six dead bodies and eight wounded.