Pope Francis: Two suicide bombers tried to kill me during visit to Iraq

Pope Francis has revealed that he was the target of a double assassination attempt during his visit to Baghdad in March 2021.
According to Reuters, in an excerpt published on Tuesday ahead of the release of his autobiography, the Pope noted that he was told by police after his plane landed in Baghdad in March 2021 that at least two suicide bombers had targeted him.
"A woman strapped to explosives, a young suicide bomber, was heading towards Mosul to blow herself up during the papal visit," the Pope wrote, according to an excerpt from the book published by the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.
"And a van had also been set off for the same purpose," it reads.
Pope Francis' visit to Mosul was seen as a significant moment in his trip to Iraq, as the country's second-largest city was under the control of the Islamic State from 2014 to 2017. The pope visited the ruins of four churches there and called for peace.