Arab League convoy attacked in Baghdad, 3 police dead

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Arab League convoy attacked in Baghdad, 3 police dead

BAGHDAD, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Gunmen attacked a convoy carrying delegates from the Arab League in western Baghdad on Monday, killing three police escorts but leaving officials mostly unscathed, the Iraqi police said.

The convoy of six to eight vehicles came under attack as it was travelling to meet representatives of the Muslim Clerics' Association, a Sunni Muslim group, for a Ramadan meal after sundown, the police and government sources said.

Gunmen opened fire as the convoy travelled past the Um al-Qora mosque, a large Sunni mosque in the west of the capital where the Muslim Clerics' Association is based.

Delegates from the Arab League, which groups 22 governments from across the Arab world, are in Baghdad to help oversee Saturday's referendum on a new constitution and to plan an upcoming visit by the its secretary-general.