Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) – A parliamentary hopeful was injured in a suicide bomb attack that targeted the premises of al-Hal (solution) party in Hit district in Anbar on Saturday, a security source was quoted as saying. The source noted that the ambulances immediately rushed to the blast site and carried the dead body to the forensic medicine department and the injured to a nearby hospital for treatment. “Parliamentary hopeful Zeinab Abdel Hamid was in a meeting of her party al-Hal when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside the party, leaving her and a number of her bodyguards injured,” the source told Baghdad Today. According to security reports, Saturday’s attack has left five people killed and seven others injured so far, including a parliamentary hopeful.
A suicide bomber injures six Iraqi soldiers near Ramadi, Anbar. The soldiers were combing a building hit by a separate bombing yesterday that killed five and injured seven including a politician.