2nd update///Baghdad blasts leave 15 killed, 32 wounded

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Fifteen people were killed and 32 others wounded when two car bombs driven by suicide attackers went off near the Iranian embassy headquarters in central Baghdad on Sunday, a security source said. “The death toll rose to 15 and the wounded to 32,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency, adding the casualties are likely to rise. “One of the two explosive vehicles went off near the justice ministry while the other near the Baghdad provincial council, both adjacent to the green zone,” the source added. Earlier on Sunday, a U.S. embassy source said two explosions, probably two car bombs, occurred near the Iranian embassy in Baghdad, prompting the nearby U.S. embassy to announce a state of emergency as sirens wailed and the staff ran to hideouts lest other explosions should take place. A series of coordinated attacks struck key government organizations, one of them near the green zone on August 19, leaving more than 100 people killed and more than one thousand others wounded. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki later on sent a message to the UN Secretary General and the UN Security Council demanding the “formation of an international panel to investigate the assaults”. The central Baghdad’s heavily-fortified zone is home to the Iraqi government offices, the headquarters of the Iraqi parliament and the U.S. embassy compound and the British embassy. AmR (S) 1