Warsaw: At least 20 Iraqis were killed in Iraq today (Feb 1, 2004) when a munitions depot blew up, the Polish spokesman for the multi-national force in Iraq said.

"About 20 people got into a fortified building shortly after midnight and caused an explosion in the huge munitions depot in the desert, 180 kilometers Southwest of Karbala," Colonel Robert Strzelecki said quoted by the Polish news agency PAP.