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Explosion rocks Sheraton Hotel in Baghdad

A huge explosion rocked a luxurious hotel, which houses western journalists and merchants, in Iraq's capital city of Baghdad late Wednesday, witnesses said.

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A huge explosion rocked a luxurious hotel, which houses western journalists and merchants, in Iraq's capital city of Baghdad late Wednesday, witnesses said.

The witnesses said they saw a projectile hit the Sheraton Hotel in central Baghdad around 8:30 p.m. (1730 GMT).

There was no report of casualties or source of the bombing.

"We have nothing about the explosion. All we know is that it is in central Baghdad," said a US spokeswoman.

The same hotel was hit by at least one rocket fired from an automatic launcher carried by a donkey cart last month.

Heavily fortified by concrete walls and US tanks, the hotel is one of several hotels favored by most foreign reporters and contractors.

The suspected insurgent attack highlighted the fresh wave of violence on eve of the first Christmas in post-Saddam Iraq.

Three US soldiers died when guerillas detonated a roadside bomb near their convoy near Samarra early Wednesday.

A suicide bomber exploded outside an Iraqi government building in the northern city of Arbil midday, killing at least four people and injuring 20 others.

Meanwhile a roadside bomb detonated in a busy area in western Baghdad around noon resulted in one Iraqi dead and at least two others wounded.

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