Iraq: Explosion hits parliament cafe, MP's killed

An explosion has hit a cafeteria at the Iraqi parliament, killing at least eight people, at least two of them MPs, the US military has said.

Police said they believed a suicide bomber was involved. Twenty-three people were injured in the attack.

The cafe, in Baghdad's highly fortified Green Zone, is for MPs and their staff, some of whom were having lunch there.

Earlier, a bomb on a bridge in Baghdad killed at least eight people and sent several cars into the River Tigris. Link

db: It's the beginning of the end. From the insurgent perspective this represents a spectacular success, in the face of which Bush will have only one response: kill lots more Iraqis.