Reply #30: Suicide bomber kills 3 MPs at Iraq parliament

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Suicide bomber kills 3 MPs at Iraq parliament
12 Apr 2007 13:25:57 GMT

By Dean Yates

BAGHDAD, April 12 (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed three Iraqi lawmakers and wounded dozens of other people while they were having lunch at a restaurant in the parliament building on Thursday, local media and officials said.

It was one of the worst security breaches inside the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad since the U.S.-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein in 2003. Among the buildings in the Green Zone are parliament, government offices and the U.S. embassy.

Iraqiya state television said three lawmakers had been killed. Officials have named one as Mohammed Awadh, a member of the Accordance Front, the biggest Sunni bloc in parliament.

A security official confirmed Awadh had been killed and said another parliamentarian was missing and presumed dead. Two other lawmakers were critically wounded, the official said.

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