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Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Salam Zaubai has been injured in a double bombing in Baghdad and taken to US military hospital for treatment. Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Salam Zaubai has been injured in a double bombing in Baghdad in which six people were killed, Iraqi police have said.
Iraqi police said a suicide bomber blew himself up near Mr Zaubai's home and a car bomb exploded at the same time. Police said a suicide bomber blew himself up and a car bomb exploded as Mr Zaubai was leaving a mosque close to his home in the Iraqi capital.
Three people are reported to have been killed and 10 wounded. He is reported to be undergoing surgery to remove shrapnel at a US military hospital in the Green Zone.
There is so far no information on the condition of Mr Zaubai, who is one of Iraq's two deputy prime ministers and a prominent Sunni Arab. Mr Zaubai, a prominent Sunni, is one of Iraq's two deputy prime ministers.
A US military spokesman, Lt Col Christopher Garver, told the BBC that Mr Zaubai had been taken to hospital in Baghdad's Green Zone but declined to comment on his condition. Two of the dead were Mr Zaubai's bodyguards and 15 people were injured, including the deputy prime minister and his brother, who is said to be badly hurt.
Mr Zaubai is a member of the Accordance Front, the main Sunni bloc in the Shia-led national unity government.
His home is close to the international or Green Zone in the centre of Baghdad, where all diplomats and much of the US military are based.
The attack happened despite a weekly vehicle ban on Fridays, designed to prevent suicide car bombings, and will be an embarrassment for the Iraqi authorities, says the BBC's Ben Brown in Baghdad.
The latest violence comes a day after a blast rocked the Green Zone as UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was giving a news conference there with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki.