Iraqi MP Ayfan Saadun al-Essawi, of the Iraqiya bloc, was killed on Tuesday along with six others after a suicide bomber wrapped his arms around the lawmaker before blowing himself up

Iraqi MP Ayfan Saadun al-Essawi, of the Iraqiya bloc, was killed on Tuesday along with six others after a suicide bomber wrapped his arms around the lawmaker before blowing himself up.

The attack comes just days after the Finance Minister, Rafie al-Issawi, survived an assassination attempt as he travelled near the same place of the attack.

"The moment he stepped out of the car to check out this road between Fallujah and Amriyah, at this moment, there was a man. He came to him, hugged him, said Allahu Akbar, and blew himself up," Sohaib Haqi, the chief of Essawi's office told AFP.
Doctor Assem al-Hamdani at Fallujah hospital put the overall toll at seven dead -- Essawi, four of his bodyguards and two civilians -- and six wounded, including four of the lawmaker's guards.

Essawi was also a former leader of the Sahwa (Awakening), a collection of tribal militias that turned against Al-Qaeda and sided with the US military from late 2006.
  
He was himself inducted into parliament after MP Khaledal-Fahdawi was killed in a suicide attack at the Umm al-Qura mosque in westBaghdad in August 2011.