Iraqi VP taken to hospital after blast-source
BAGHDAD, Feb 26 (Reuters) Iraq's Shi'ite Vice President Adel Abdul-Mahdi was taken to hospital for ''routine checks'' after suffering minor wounds in a blast at a ministry today that killed six people, a senior political source said.
''We know he has been sent to hospital but it's a natural checkup,'' the source, from Iraq's governing Shi'ite Alliance, told Reuters.
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Story first published: Monday, February 26, 2007, 16:54 [IST]