Officials have long feared that the political impasse that has gripped Iraq for more than seven months may lead to violence and the attack of the UN Special Representative Melkert said the announcement of these fears .
The United Nations withdrew from Iraq after a bombing in 2003, its headquarters in Baghdad killed then sent Sergio Vieira de Mello and 21 employees and a series of other attacks against humanitarian workers. But the world body is back in 2004 and has increased its presence over the years that violence and the ebb of the U.S. military begins to leave Iraq.
UN spokeswoman Randa Jamal said Melkert finished meeting with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani left the Shiite holy city of Najaf when his convoy struck a roadside bomb. Person in the delegation was injured and was Melkert unharmed in Baghdad on Tuesday evening, said Jamal.
Jamal said that the UN convoy was accompanied by an escort of Iraqi security. Iraq General Othman al-Ghanem, who oversees military operations in the region, initially said that no one in the convoy were killed or wounded.
But the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon later confirmed that "unfortunately, a member of the Iraqi security forces was killed and several others wounded," deputy spokesman of the UN Farhan Haq said. Ban said the UN staff, including the United Nations and Melkert Deputy Special Representative Jerzy Skuratowicz, escaped without injury.