By IRNA,
Baghdad : Two foreign contractors working for the UN have been killed and 15 wounded in a rocket attack on Baghdad’s high- security Green Zone, a UN spokeswoman said.
She said the rocket that hit near its Baghdad headquarters struck about 6:15 a.m., killing two people and injuring 15.
All were workers for a catering company supporting the U.N. staff in Iraq, and none was Iraqi, she said. She did not give their nationalities.
It is not known who carried out the attack, which comes just days after the Iraqi parliament approved a new security pact with the United States.
Terrorist attacks stopped after a ceasefire earlier this year between the Iraqi government and supporters of cleric Moqtada Sadr.
On Thursday, the Iraqi parliament voted in favour of a new security pact with the United States, under which American troops are to leave Iraq by the end of 2011.
Moqtada Sadr condemned the agreement and called for three days of protests against the plan, but he specified they should be peaceful.
The UN’s presence in Iraq has been limited since a suicide bombing of its Baghdad headquarters in 2003 killed 22 people, including its top envoy, Sergio Vieira de Mello.