A leading Iraqi Shiite parliament deputy Dhari al-Fayadh was killed in a suicide car bomb blast in northern Baghdad on Tuesday, police said.

Fayadh's son and his three bodyguards were also killed in the attack, when a suicide car bomber struck their convoy in Baghdad's northern district of Rashdiyah, police said.

Fayadh, 87, is a member of Iraq's Shiite-dominated political alliance. He was appointed as the speaker of the Iraqi elected parliament, for a while, as he was the oldest lawmaker until the parliament formally elected its speaker, Hachim al-Hassani.

He was the second lawmaker killed since the Shiite and Kurdish government took office in last April.

Source: Xinhua