No Australians injured in Baghdad blast

A bomb exploded outside the Australian embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, early Wednesday, with no Australians injured, Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) said.

A DFAT spokeswoman said no damage has been done to the embassy when the car bomb exploded.

She said there is no information that the embassy was specifically targeted.

A spokesman for Acting Prime Minister John Anderson said his government is waiting for further details about the explosion. "We're unsure yet of how many bystanders may have been killed or injured," he said.

This is the second explosion outside the embassy in four months. Nine people were killed, none of them Australian, in another bomb blast on Sept. 9 last year.

Australia now keeps about 900 soldiers in and around Iraq as part of the US-led coalition forces there.

Source: Xinhua