AT LEAST two people were killed and 20 others were injured when a car bomb exploded as the vehicle was being examined at a checkpoint at the UN compound in Baghdad.

UN operations in Iraq “will be handicapped considerably” following the second suicide bombing attack on its Baghdad headquarters, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said tonight.

Six people are still unaccounted for after a suicide car bomber killed himself and a policeman at a checkpoint outside the UN headquarters in Baghdad today.

A suicide car bomber has killed an Iraqi policeman and himself at a road checkpoint behind the UN headquarters in Baghdad.