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AFP, Baghdad

At least 14 were killed in different incidents in Iraq. Two foreign UN contractors were killed and another 15 wounded when a mortar round slammed into Baghdad's heavily-guarded Green Zone on Saturday, a UN official said.

The two killed in the dawn attack were foreign maintenance workers contracted by the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), according to the official, who spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity.

Of the 15 people wounded in the attack, seven were in serious condition, the official said, raising fears the death toll could rise further.

The heavily-fortified Green Zone in the centre of Baghdad houses the Iraqi parliament and a number of government buildings and foreign embassies.

Suicide bombers on Friday launched two attacks in Iraq, killing 10 people near Baghdad and two others in the capital.

Lawmakers loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr hold signs that protest the U.S.-Iraq security pact after parliament OKd it.

Lawmakers loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr hold signs that protest the U.S.-Iraq security pact after parliament OKd it.

At least nine people were killed and 15 were wounded Friday when a suicide bomber detonated explosives in a Shiite mosque south of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry official said.

The bomber detonated a suicide vest around noon (4 a.m. ET), during Friday prayers in the town of Musayyib, about 60 kilometers (37 miles) south of Baghdad in Babil province, the official said.

Most of the casualties were worshippers, the official said. One of the dead was a woman beggar.

The mosque is affiliated with followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, the official said.