| (KUNA) -- Iraqi Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Samir al-Attar and two of his bodyguards were wounded by a roadside bomb explosion near his two-vehicle convoy in Baghdad's eastern neighborhood of Zayouna, the police said. Meanwhile in eastern Baghdad, two people were injured during a roadside bomb explosion near the al-Shaab Stadium intersection, the police said. Violence persists in Baghdad despite the announcement of a steep drop of violence by U.S. and Iraqi officials as a result of a major security plan aimed at checking the insurgency and sectarian strife in the capital. |