Baghdad, July 19: Four people have died in an attack on the employees of a British company in northern Iraq as militancy continues to claim more lives in the violence-stricken nation.
The incident took place on Monday in the northern city of Mosul when a car bomber rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into a convoy carrying employees of a British company, Reuters reported.
The attack targeted the last vehicle of the convoy, reportedly killing all the four people riding in it and wounding five Iraqi civilians.
Iraqi officials said the firm was a British construction company but its name was not immediately known and the report could not be independently confirmed.
The nationality of the dead foreigners was not immediately known, either.
A bomber blew himself up, targeting the vehicle carrying Undersecretary of Agriculture Mahdi al-Dhamad in Bab al-Sheikh neighborhood in central Baghdad.
Dhamad escaped the assassination attempt unscathed but one of his bodyguards along with four civilian were injured in the attack.
Iraq remains the scene of almost daily militant attacks and deadly bombings years into a 2003 US-led invasion which unleashed al-Qaeda-linked militancy in the country.
Violence has picked up again in a political vacuum following the key March 7 national election, which failed to produce an outright winner.
——-Agencies