Baghdad, Dec 25, SPA -- Police and hospital officials saidSaturday that two people had died in a massive explosion ofa gas tanker in west Baghdad, just hours after DefenseSecretary Donald H. Rumsfeld left the capital after asurprise visit. Initially U.S. military sources said one person died and19 were wounded in the explosion of the butane truck thatwas parked near the Libyan Embassy in the upscale Mansourdistrict that also houses other foreign missions and ishome to many top Iraqi officials. On Saturday, a spokesman for the al-Yarmouk Hospital saidthat one of the injured died overnight of severe burns.Police spokesman Mohamed Muhsen confirmed the casualtyfigures. There were no members of the multinational forces amongthe casualties, said Capt. Brian Lucas, a U.S. militaryspokesman in Baghdad. Three nearby houses were damaged by the blast, thoughthere were no injuries inside the embassies. Rumsfeld's surprise one-day tour in Iraq took him to thecities of Mosul, Fallujah and Tikrit and the heavilybarricaded Green Zone in Baghdad _ he did not visit theMansour area _ and throughout his meetings with U.S.troops, he insisted that the insurgency that plagued thecountry for months would be defeated.--SPA1048 Local Time 0748 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/227361