 The Nasiriya attack was the worst against Italian forces since WW II |
The Italian mission in Baghdad has been hit by rocket or mortar fire, Italian officials say. The offices were empty and no one was injured in the blast, at 2300 (2030 GMT), a foreign ministry official said.
Italian forces and officials in Iraq have been on high alert since a suicide attack on an Italian base in southern Iraq two weeks ago.
Nineteen Italians died in the attack in the town of Nasiriya - Italy's biggest loss since World War II.
Italian state-run Rai television said the second floor of the Italian mission had been hit.
Only a few people were in the building at the time, and everyone escaped injury, it said.
The strike comes a day after rockets landed close to the US-led coalition compound on the west bank of the Tigris river in Baghdad.
Last week, the US military said it had found several rockets in a street close to the Italian embassy in Baghdad.
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