Two U.S. soldiers check the scene after a suicide bomber blew himself up near a restaurant close to the heavily fortified Green Zone in central Baghdad on Tuesday.(Xinhua/AFP Photo)

A Iraqi policeman checks the scene after a suicide bomber blew himself up near a restaurant close to the heavily fortified Green Zone in central Baghdad on Tuesday.(Xinhua/AFP Photo)

    BAGHDAD, July 11 (Xinhua) -- At least five people were killed and ten others wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up near a restaurant close to the heavily fortified Green Zone in central Baghdad on Tuesday, an Interior Ministry source said.  

    "A suicide bomber, wearing an explosive belt, parked his explosive-packed car near the Seirwan restaurant close to the Green Zone government compound, and detonated himself simultaneously with the car bomb," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.      

    People at the scene suspected the suicide bomber when he left his car, but he blew himself up and the car before they captured him, the source said.   Enditem