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Iraqi MP killed by roadside bomb | |
(about 5 hours later) | |
An Iraqi MP from the bloc of Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has died in a roadside bombing in Baghdad. | |
Police said the bomb had been placed on a motorcycle and exploded as a convoy carrying Saleh al-Ogaili drove past. | |
He suffered severe head wounds and was later pronounced dead. He is the first MP to be killed in Iraq for 18 months. | |
Police said two other people died in the blast, which took place in the Habibiyah district, near the Sadr movement's stronghold of Sadr City. | |
The last MPs to be killed in Iraq were among eight people killed on 12 April 2007, when a suicide bomber attacked the cafeteria at the Iraqi parliament. | |
In another roadside bombing north of Baghdad on Thursday, the leader of an armed Sunni group working with US forces against al-Qaeda militants was killed along with two of his children and a nephew, police said. | |
Abbas Khudair led a Sahwa - or Awakening - group in the Uthaim area of Baquba, in the restive capital Diyala province. |
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