A rocket attack on the US embassy compound in Baghdad's Green Zone killed two Americans and wounded four, a US embassy spokesman said today.
"It hit near the embassy building," embassy spokesman Mr Bob Callahan said. "There are two dead and four who are wounded...all Americans."
Most of the US embassy's staff work in Saddam Hussein's former Republican Palace, a huge building inside the Green Zone. The US ambassador and other senior staff work in a separate building.
The US embassy was previously hit by mortar fire in August last year, wounding two people but causing no deaths.
Many embassy staff are housed in prefabricated trailers which are protected by blast walls and sandbags but are open to aerial assault. It was not clear if today's attack hit trailers or the embassy building itself.