2 killed, 10 wounded in mortar attacks on Green Zone

Above: A 'duck and cover' bunker inside the Green Zone.

BAGHDAD, May 16 (Reuters) - Two Iraqis were killed and 10 other people wounded when 10 mortar rounds slammed into the heavily fortified Green Zone compound in central Baghdad on Wednesday, a U.S. embassy spokesman said.

Few details were available about those killed in the second attack on the zone in two days, but none of the casualties were embassy employees or contractors, the spokesman said.

Of the 10 injured, eight were identified as Iraqis. The nationality of the remaining two was not clear but they were neither Americans nor Iraqis.

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