Iraqi Parliament Speaker Osama al-Nujaifi has escaped an assassination attempt, which has left at least five people injured in the north of the country.
On Wednesday, a car bomb and a subsequent roadside bomb exploded in the south of the city of Mosul in Nineveh province, where Nujaifi�s convoy was passing, AFP quoted the parliament speaker�s office as saying.

The office added that Nujaifi was not travelling along with the convoy as he was on his way to Jordan.

Following the incident, Nujaifi released a statement, in which he condemned the attack and censured the country�s security forces for "inability to protect citizens... and confront the forces of terrorism."

Earlier this year, Nineveh Governor Atheel al-Nujaifi, Osama's brother, emerged unscathed after a roadside bomb exploded near his convoy.

Elsewhere in the violence-stricken country, attacks claimed nine lives on Wednesday.

A roadside bomb blasted near a truck carrying workers in the south of the capital Baghdad, killing eight people and wounding seven others. A policeman was also shot dead by militants near the northern city of Kirkuk.

According to the United Nations, a total of 1,057 Iraqis, including 928 civilians, were killed and another 2,326 were wounded in terrorist attacks throughout the country in July -- the deadliest month since 2008.

Violence also left almost 1,000 people dead and more than 2,000 wounded in Iraq in September, according to the UN.

Iraq�s Interior Ministry has said that militants have launched an open war in Iraq and they want to push the Middle Eastern country into chaos.

�The country is currently facing an open war from bloodthirsty sectarian forces that aim to plunge the country into chaos,� the Interior Ministry said in a statement issued on July 30.

By Press TV

 

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