A suicide car bomber struck near the Iraqi prime minister's party headquarters on Monday, killing three people and wounding 17 others, reports said. The huge explosion rocked the city and sent a column of black smoke rising above the skyline.
Earlier this month, a suicide car bomber targeted the same offices of interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's party. Four people were killed and 25 injured in that attack.
Meanwhile, three US soldiers were wounded when resistance forces fired mortars into their patrol base near Samarra Sunday, a statement said on Monday.
