Seven killed in Baghdad bomb attack

A suicide bomber blew himself up in a central Baghdad hotel today, killing seven people.

At least 12 other people were reported wounded.

A man wearing a belt of explosives walked into the lobby of the Mansour Hotel, approached the reception desk and detonated his bomb.

The high-rise hotel, on the banks of the Tigris River, houses the Chinese Embassy and the news agency Agence France-Presse, among other tenants.

The attack was the fifth in a string of suicide and other bombings in Iraq today, from Mosul and Beiji in the north to Hillah in the south.

At least 27 people were killed in the bombings.