Officials in Seoul said no South Korean parliamentary officials were harmed after Iraqi insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades Friday into a hotel in Baghdad where the officials were staying.

South Korean foreign ministry officials quoted a Korean embassy official in Baghdad as saying that at least three Westerners were injured in the attack on the Palestine Hotel, one of them seriously, and that all those wounded in the attacks appeared to be Americans.

The embassy official also reportedly said the 10-member South Korean parliamentary team, currently in Iraq on a 10-day mission to assess the local security situation ahead of a South Korean troop dispatch to the gulf state, had been evacuated from the hotel along with five Korean embassy staff members to another location.

Lee Kwang-jae, head of the Foreign Ministry's African and Middle East affairs division said he did not think that the attack was specifically targeting the South Koreans, because the Palestine Hotel houses many foreign journalists and businessmen.