Mortar Round Lands On Iraq Parliament, No Injuries

A mortar round hit Iraq's parliament inside Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone on Monday.

A mortar round hit Iraq's parliament inside Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone on Monday, members of parliament said, but there were no reports of injury or significant damage.

Parliament was not sitting at the time, but many members were inside the building.

A Shi'ite lawmaker told al-Sharqiya television that the round had landed on the roof above the office of Speaker of Parliament Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, who was in his office.

Another lawmaker told Reuters dust had filled the parliament but there were no injuries or substantial damage.

On April 12, in the worst breach of security in Baghdad's most secure area, a suicide bomber killed one lawmaker in the parliament building.

But the almost daily insurgent mortar and rocket attacks on the Green Zone, which houses government buildings and the U.S. embassy, cause relatively few casualties because many land harmlessly in the large expanses of open space.