Baghdad/Warsaw - Poland's ambassador to Iraq was injured in a bomb blast Wednesday in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, a Polish Foreign Ministry spokesman and Iraqi media reports confirmed Wednesday. At least one other person, the ambassador's body guard, was injured in the bomb blast which occurred as Ambassador General Edward Pietrzyk was travelling in a road convoy, Polish spokesman Robert Szaniawski confirmed.
Arab news network al-Arabiya reported that two Iraqis were also killed in the attack.
Iraq's Aswat al-Iraq news agency reported that an explosive had gone off at the roadside in the Karrada district of the capital., injuring the ambassador and several employees of the Polish embassy.
Witnesses reported seeing helicopters flying to the scene after the blast.
Six people, including three from the convoy, were wounded in the attack, Iraq's Sharqiya TV channel reported.
The Sharqiya report added that Pietrzyk, a former general, managed to leave the scene with slight injuries.
General Pietrzyk was nominated Poland's ambassador to Iraq in April of this year.
Public opposition in EU and NATO-member Poland to the presence of some 900 Polish troops in the US-led multinational forces in Iraq remains strong at 81 per cent, according to a recent survey.
