Senior Iraqi official escapes roadside bomb attack
A senior Iraqi customs official escaped a roadside bomb attack on Tuesday, officials said, the latest in a spate of assassination attempts ahead of provincial elections.
A government statement says a senior Iraqi education official has escaped assassination while traveling through central Baghdad.The statement says the undersecretary of Iraq's Higher Education Ministry, Ammar Aziz Mohammed Ali, was not hurt when a roadside bomb hit his convoy midmorning Tuesday.A police officer at the scene says two civilians and three guards were injured.