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Near-simultaneous suicide car bombs hit 3 embassies in Baghdad

IRAQ/TERRORISM: IRANIAN, EGYPTIAN AND GERMAN EMBASSIES HIT BY NEAR-SIMULTANEOUS SUICIDE CAR BOMB ATTACKS IN BAGHDAD.

The Iranian, Egyptian and German embassies in Baghdad have been targeted in a series of almost simultaneous, suicide car bombs which have left 30 dead and around 170 more injured, according to Iraqi sources.

One of the targets is believed to be the official residence of the German embassy. The Iranian Charge d’Affairs, Kazem Sheikh Forutan, said that no there were no casualties among Iranian embassy staff at the Mansour site, adding “fortunately none of the Iranian embassy employees have been hurt, but the embassy building is heavily damaged,”. There were also believed to be no casualties among the Egyptian embassy staff. It is not yet known whether any of the German embassy’s staff were among the casualties. The Headquarters of Ahmad Chalabi’s pro-Iranian party, the Iraqi National Congress (INC), was also caught in the blast of one attack close to the Syrian embassy. It is believed that a large number of security guards and employees of the INC were among the casualties.

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