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Car Bomb Kills Six in Downtown Baghdad

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Published October 12, 2003 at 12:00 AM EDT

A suicide car bomber rams a barricade outside a hotel full of Americans, and the explosion kills at least six bystanders and injures dozens more. It is the second car bombing in the past four days. NPR's Tom Bullock reports.

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