A bomb exploded outside the Australian embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, early
Wednesday, with no Australians injured, Australia's Department of Foreign
Affairs and Trade (DFAT) said.
A DFAT spokeswoman said no damage has been done to the embassy when the car
bomb exploded.
She said there is no information that the embassy was specifically targeted.
A spokesman for Acting Prime Minister John Anderson said his government is
waiting for further details about the explosion. "We're unsure yet of how many
bystanders may have been killed or injured," he said.
This is the second explosion outside the embassy in four months. Nine people
were killed, none of them Australian, in another bomb blast on Sept. 9 last
year.
Australia now keeps about 900 soldiers in and around Iraq as part of the
US-led coalition forces there.
