7 Iraqi security guards killed in Baghdad

A bomb attack on Wednesday killed seven members of an Iraqi specialised security force in south of Baghdad.

A bomb attack on Wednesday killed seven members of an Iraqi specialised security force, the Facility Protection Service, as they were receiving their salaries south of Baghdad, police said.

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The bomb was concealed in a plastic bag inside a government building in the town of Iskandiriyah, north of Hilla, where the security guards had arrived to receive their salaries, a spokesman for Hilla police said.