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Explosion hits Iraq parliament

An explosion has hit a cafeteria at the Iraqi parliament, killing at least one person and injuring several others, witnesses said.
A bomb has struck Iraq's parliament building in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, and many people are feared wounded, according to a parliament official.

The explosion on Thursday took place in a cafeteria while several ministers were eating lunch, Mohammed Abu Bakr, who heads the media department at the parliament, said.

Early reports said that one member of parliament was killed and several other people were wounded.

The canteen is on the first floor of the huge Iraqi parliament building, on the same floor as the 275-member national assembly's main debating chamber.

Mobile telephones and landlines in central Baghdad around the Green Zone were not able to be reached after the blast.

The US military said only that it was tracking media reports of a blast inside the sprawling Green Zone compound, also home to the Iraqi government, foreign embassies and senior officials.



Attacks there are relatively rare with access heavily restricted to visitors carrying picture identity cards and required to pass through multiple checkpoints and metal detectors.

Fighters have, however, managed to fire projectiles such as rockets and mortar rounds into the compound from outside its heavily guarded walls.
 
 

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