Car accident in S. Iraq kills 4

BAGHDAD, May 2 (Xinhua) -- Four people were killed on Thursday in a car accident in Iraq's southern province of Dhi Qar, a traffic police official said.

Abbas Ali, an official from the traffic police department of Nasiriyah, the provincial capital, said the accident occurred on the main road south of Nasiriah, some 325 km south of Baghdad, when a truck collided with a car carrying the four victims.