Car blast kills two in Baghdad

A car bomb in Baghdad has killed two civilians and wounded four more this morning, police said, a day after Egypt’s top envoy to Iraq was kidnapped in an apparent bid to dissuade the country’s Arab neighbours from strengthening ties to the US-backed government.

The car bomb was parked on a street in the capital’s western area and was detonated by remote control, police said. One of the victims was a woman.