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Iraq deputy PM injured in blast | Iraq deputy PM injured in blast |
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Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Salam Zaubai has been injured in a double bombing in Baghdad in which six people were killed, Iraqi police have said. | |
Police said a suicide bomber blew himself up and a car bomb exploded as Mr Zaubai was leaving a mosque close to his home in the Iraqi capital. | |
He is reported to be undergoing surgery to remove shrapnel at a US military hospital in the Green Zone. | |
Mr Zaubai, a prominent Sunni, is one of Iraq's two deputy prime ministers. | |
Two of the dead were Mr Zaubai's bodyguards and 15 people were injured, including the deputy prime minister and his brother, who is said to be badly hurt. | |
Mr Zaubai is a member of the Accordance Front, the main Sunni bloc in the Shia-led national unity government. | |
His home is close to the international or Green Zone in the centre of Baghdad, where all diplomats and much of the US military are based. | |
The attack happened despite a weekly vehicle ban on Fridays, designed to prevent suicide car bombings, and will be an embarrassment for the Iraqi authorities, says the BBC's Ben Brown in Baghdad. | |
The latest violence comes a day after a blast rocked the Green Zone as UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was giving a news conference there with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki. |