Car bomb explodes near Iraq Shi'ite party office

Baghdad, May 12: A bomb in a parked car exploded near an office of a Shi'ite Islamist party in Baghdad today but caused no casualties and little damage, police said.

A Reuters reporter said the wrecked car lay outside the concrete anti-blast walls of an office of the Dawa party in the Zaafaraniya district in the south of the capital.

Dawa is the party of Prime Minister-designate Nuri al-Maliki, who is trying to form a national unity government.

Reuters