Woman killed in Islamic party bomb attack
An explosion just before dawn at an office belonging to Iraq’s major Shiite party killed one Iraqi woman and wounded five others in Baghdad today.
It was the second attack this week on the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution Party.
The blast brought down half of the one-storey residential building in western Baghdad which also housed a branch office for the party.
Rahim Jabar, who lives in the building, said his sister was killed in the attack and that five other residents were wounded.
Supreme Council members were rushing to the scene.
On Wednesday, senior party member Muhannad al-Hakim was killed while leaving his home in Baghdad. Party officials blamed the killing on Saddam Hussein loyalists.
An anti-Saddam rally was planned for later today in the capital.
Al-Hakim was a cousin of Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim, who currently holds the rotating presidency of the US appointed Iraqi Governing Council.
