Baghdad, 13 April (AKI) - Iraqi police have detained three workers at a canteen situated in the country's parliament buildings were eight people were killed in a bomb blast on Thursday. Iraqi parliamentarian Hasan al Senaid in an interview with the local broadcaster Radio Sawa said investigators suspect canteen workers and MP bodyguards may be involved in the attack which took place in the high security Green Zone of the Iraqi capital.
Parliament held a special session on Friday afternoon to discuss the attack and the apparent security breach which allowed it to happen. The rare emergency session of parliament on what on what is normally a rest day, was called by Iraq's parliament speaker, Mahmoud Mashhadani to "defy terrorism".
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