BAGHDAD, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) -- The death toll of late Friday's suicide bombing on a convoy of Iraqi ex-deputy premier in western Baghdad rose to six, an interior ministry source said on Saturday.

    "Our latest reports said that six people were killed and 17 others injured by the suicide bombing that struck the convoy of former Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed al-Chalabi in the Mansour district," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

    Four of Chalabi's bodyguards were among the killed while five others were among the wounded, the source said.

    The attack also damaged three of the convoy's vehicles, he said.

    Earlier, an interior ministry source put the casualties at two killed and 17 others wounded when a suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden car into Chalabi's convoy at about 9:50 p.m. (1850GMT) in the mixed Sunni and Shiite district of Mansour.

    The source said that Chalabi was not in the convoy during the attack.

    Chalabi, 64, was deputy prime minister from May 2005 to May 2006.He is also the head of the Iraqi National Congress party.