Iraq parl't speaker escapes assassination attempt

BAGHDAD, April 13 (KUNA) -- Iraq's Parliament Speaker Osama Nujaifi on Sunday escaped an assassination attempt when a roadside bomb targeted his convoy in Kirkuk province, north of Baghdad.
No casualties were reported and the speaker was not harmed in the bomb attack, a security source told KUNA.
Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Saleh Al-Mutlak had survived an assassination attempt on Friday in the Abu Ghraib area west of Baghdad. (end) ahh.ss