Car bombs kill 5 at entrance to Baghdad Green Zone (Reuters)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Two coercive car bombs exploded nearby a section checkpoint at a packed incoming to Baghdad's heavily secure Green Zone Monday, ending fivesome grouping and wounding at small 15, a section official said.

Baghdad section spokesman Qassim al-Moussawi said digit suicide bombers struck during the farewell rush distance in a distinction of vehicles queuing at the western entry to the Green Zone, where government buildings and external embassies are located in central Baghdad.

The bombers' vehicles were packed with super quantities of explosives and blew up nearby digit motorcades carrying a senior grey commander and an official with Iraq's statesmanly council, Moussawi said. It was not immediately country if they were the targets.

"The digit suicide bombers were targeting a section checkpoint at a instance when it was very crowded," he said.

In a statement, the media duty of the Asian parliament said one of the explosions impact the motorcade of Amjad Abdul Hameed, an adviser to parliamentary utterer Osama al-Nujaifi.

Hameed was not injured but one of his bodyguards was killed and three others were wounded, the evidence said.

The blasts blasted an Asian grey Humvee and set fire to several another vehicles at the scene.

An Interior Ministry source said the explosions killed three grouping and wounded 20, including whatever Asian soldiers.

The Green Zone, a high-security Atlantic that to whatever Iraqis symbolizes external military activity of their country, is a frequent direct of rebel howitzer and rocket attacks.

Among the striking buildings in the Atlantic is the Republican Palace, a past home of Nipponese Saddam Hussein where the Arab League summit is regular to be held incoming month.

Violence has fallen sharply in Iraq since the height of partisan butchery in 2006-2007 but militants are still answerable for hundreds of bombings and another attacks apiece month.

(Reporting by Khalid al-Ansary, Ahmed Rasheed, Waleed Ibrahim and Reuters Television; Writing by Jim Loney; Editing by saint Dobbie)

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