BAGHDAD, March 29 Kyodo Gunmen at...

BAGHDAD, March 29 Kyodo

Gunmen attacked a guard carrying the Iraq's public works minister, Nisreen Berwari, in the northern city of Mosul forward Sunday, killing a driver and a bodyguard and injuring sum of two units others, but the minister was unharmed.

Berwari, the simply female cabinet member, was returning from a meeting in the city of Dohuk when her guard was attacked, the Associated Pres quot the US-l coalition as saying.

The attack was an ''assassination attempt,'' said an official with the Kurdistan Democratic Party which she belongs to.

Iraqi police said the attack occurr around 11 a.m., the brace killed were both bodyguards and the minister was in another car that was not hit on gunfire, according to AP.

In September, Aqila al-Hashimi, another female political leader and Shiite member of the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council, was assassinated near her hearth in Baghdad.

In Mosul gunmen attacked a attend carrying foreign engineers working at a power station also forward Sunday, killing a Canadian and Briton working as security guards.

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