(KUNA) -- Seven people died in a car bomb blast in the heart of the Iraqi capital on Wednesday, police said. Police said the explosives-laden vehicle was parked near Uqba Bin Nafea Square. The blast killed seven people and wounded 11 others.Separately, three bodyguards of Abdel Aziz Al-Hakim, the head of the parliamentary majority, were wounded when mortars crashed near his house in the capital. It was not known whether Al-Hakim was at home when the shells crashed.
A security source said the American forces have recently set free a notorious terrorist, who had been nabbed in Diyalah northeast of the capital. Atta Saadoun had been detained in an operation in the province last month.