US kills 62 in marketplace bombing

national | miscellaneous | news report Wednesday April 02, 2003 10:26 by James McKenna jimmymac61 at hotmail dot com

Robert Fisk identifies seriel numbers

An American missile, identified from the remains of its serial number, was pinpointed yesterday as the cause of the explosion at a Baghdad market on Friday night that killed at least 62 Iraqis.

The codes on the foot-long shrapnel shard, seen by the Independent correspondent Robert Fisk at the scene of the bombing in the Shu'ale district, came from a weapon manufactured in Texas by Ray- theon, the world's biggest producer of "smart" armaments.