None of the store's workers were wounded, he said.
Another police officer and two government workers were wounded, he said.
In addition to the dead, 28 workers were wounded, he said.
At least 20 other passers-by and shop and office workers were wounded.
"The explosion was huge, like it was a car bomb," said Adnan Majid, a 29-year-old library worker who was wounded in the arm.
"We are all so simple," said Hussein Jawad, 40, a construction worker who was wounded in the first attack, which occurred at 7 a.m. when a parked car exploded outside a row of grocery stores and restaurants in the Alawi neighborhood in central Baghdad.
The manager, Claudine Parker, 52, was killed, and a co-worker, Kellie Adams, 24, was wounded as they closed up about 7 30 p.m. on Sept. 21.
Page A8 AID WORKER DEAD IN SOMALIA A foreign aid worker was shot dead and another was wounded by a former colleague at their office in Mogadishu, according to officials and witnesses.
MOGADISHU, Somalia — A foreign aid worker was shot dead and another was wounded by a former colleague at their office here in the capital on Thursday, according to officials and witnesses, adding to a series of attacks on humanitarian workers and journalists that has underscored the dangers of working in this war-torn country.
