Attack on Iraq's Green Zone near U.N. kills two

Sat Nov 29, 2008 4:13am EST
 
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Rocket or mortar attacks on the heavily fortified Baghdad government and military Green Zone compound killed at least two foreign workers on Saturday near the United Nations offices, a U.N. official and police said.

The U.N. official said two catering workers, of unknown nationality and not affiliated with the world body, had been killed. A Green Zone security source put the toll at three foreign workers killed and 15 wounded.

The Green Zone compound houses many Iraqi government ministries and U.S. military and diplomatic offices, and comes under frequent bomb attacks, though rockets and mortars have been rare in recent months.

(Writing by Mohammed Abbas: Editing by Michael Christie and Mark Trevelyan)

 

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