(11 Dec 2008) SHOTLIST
1. Exterior of restaurant 'Abdullah Rest' with soldiers standing outside
2. Mid of front of damaged restaurant
3. Glass on ground and shattered window
4. Pan of damage inside restaurant
5. Remains of plates of food and soldiers standing near by
6. Various of damage to restaurant with destroyed ceiling
7. Mid of exterior of restaurant
8. Interior of hospital ward, travelling shot of injured people being treated by medics
9. Injured man being treated, bloodstained shirt
10. Zoom into second injured man on hospital bed
11. Injured girl on bed with bloodstained legs, tilt up to distressed mother,
12. Injured man standing, held up by friend
13. An injured man with bandaged head on floor, tilt up to injured man on bed, track to injured woman with bloodstained face holding child being led through hospital ward
14. Injured man on bed receiving treatment, distressed relatives in background
STORYLINE
A suicide bomber struck a crowded restaurant in northern Iraq on Thursday where Kurdish officials were meeting with Arab tribal leaders to discuss long-standing ethnic tensions, killing at least 55 people, police said.
Police Brigadier General Sarhad Qadir, who gave the casualty figures, said the blast occurred in the Abdullah Restaurant just north of the contested oil city of Kirkuk.
He said 120 people were wounded and that the dead included five women and three children.
It appeared to be the deadliest attack in Iraq in nearly six months.
A Kurdish official said Arab tribal leaders were having lunch with members of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, the party of President Jalal Talabani.
They were to attend a meeting with Talabani after the lunch to discuss ways to defuse tensions among Arabs, Kurds and Turkomen in the Kirkuk area.
The restaurant was also packed with families celebrating the final day of the Muslim Eid al-Adha religious holiday.
It is affiliated with another Kirkuk restaurant of the same name, which was attacked by a car bomb in 2007 that killed six people and wounded 25.
A guard at the entrance said the blast occurred moments after a man parked his car and walked inside.
The man was not searched because the guards had not been told to frisk customers, he said.
The guard spoke on condition of anonymity because of fears for his own safety.
At the city's main hospital, family members wept and screamed in the blood-smeared corridors as doctors sought to save the lives of victims.
Kirkuk, the centre of Iraq's northern oil fields, has seen fewer attacks than other regions such as Baghdad but remains the focus of years of competition and political wrangling among ethnic groups with rival claims to the city.
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