A blast in a crowded residential street in Baghdad this evening killed an Iraqi man and wounded several people.
US troops on the scene blamed a rocket fired by guerrillas.
The blast smashed windows and sprayed shrapnel across the street on the west bank of the Tigris river, three miles from the "Green Zone", the headquarters of the US-led coalition in Baghdad that has been repeatedly targeted by mortar and rocket attacks in recent months.
A child was among the wounded taken to a nearby hospital. Crowds of locals gathered in the street after the blast.
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The US army said the Green Zone had not been hit in the attack.