Two rockets were fired at US embassy

Two rockets targeted Baghdad’s ultra-secure Green Zone that houses the US embassy early Sunday, Iraq’s security forces said in a statement.

Now claimed responsibility for the rocket attack so far.

“The Green Zone in Baghdad was the target of two Katyusha rockets. The first was shot down in the air by C-RAM defence batteries, the second fell in a square, damaging two vehicles,” the statement said.

A security people stated that the shot down rocket fell near the US embassy, while the second came down roughly 500 metres away.

Previously, the source told AFP that two rockets had been shot down near the US embassy.