(29 Jun 2005)
Night shots
1. Wide shot hotel at distance
2. US tanks driving towards hotel
3. Wide shot emergency vehicles at site
STORYLINE:
A mortar round exploded outside a Baghdad hotel Wednesday, injuring one man and damaging more than one dozen cars, hotel employees said.
The round landed in the parking lot of the Babil hotel, which lies on the banks of the Tigris river in Baghdad's eastern neighborhood of Karradah.
The blast shattered some of the hotel's windows.
A phone operator at the hotel said about 15 cars were damaged and a man sitting in the Babil's coffee shop was injured.
The hotel rarely has western patrons and is usually frequented by Iraqis and Arabs merchants. The mortar may have been intended for the heavily fortified Green Zone, located across the Tigris River.
The hotel also hosts governmental and political conferences.
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