The office of the Iraqi presidency says the wife of President Jalal Talabani has narrowly escaped assassination in a roadside bomb attack near her convoy in central Baghdad.
The office says four bodyguards were wounded in the explosion. In other violence in Baghdad, the US military says it has killed 14 militants in the Shi'ite militia strongholds of Sadr City and Shula. The fighting was part of a security offensive which the Iraqi government launched on March 25 to clear the areas of militants and criminal gangs.
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