A Foreign Office spokeswoman confirmed two British nationals had died, and one person had been injured but no further details were released. The confirmation came as four people were killed when a bomb exploded outside coalition headquarters. But the Foreign Office said it could not confirm whether the British nationals died in that attack. An Iraqi police officer said the victims were foreigners, but US officials said the nationalities of the dead were not yet known. It is unclear whether the car was targeted by a roadside bomb or whether it had been carrying the device. The blast occurred about 500 metres from the gate of one of the entrances to the Baghdad coalition headquarters. A US military spokesman inside the compound said the explosion, at around 1100 GMT, was followed by small arms fire. Witnesses say US soldiers tried to pull the men from the destroyed car and quickly sealed off the area. The entrance is one of the busiest in the Green Zone, which houses the coalition headquarters. It is the latest in a series of deadly attacks in the Iraqi capital. Earlier on Monday a roadside bomb killed two adults and a child. On Saturday, a suicide car bomber killed four people and wounded a deputy interior minister in Baghdad.
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