Car bomb near Iraq parliamentarian’s home kills 2

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A suicide car bomber exploded near the home of the leader of a small Iraqi Sunni Arab parliamentary party on Tuesday, killing two people and wounding four, police said.

Saleh al-Mutlaq, leader of the National Dialogue Front, was in Amman, Jordan at the time of the blast near his western Baghdad house, his wife, also in Amman, told Reuters by telephone.

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