Gilda Vieira de Mello (R) and Carolina Larriera after a mass in Rio de Janeiro to celebrate the 7th day of the death of ,respectively, their son and boyfriend Sergio Vieira de Mello, the United Nations Coordinator for Iraq who died on Aug 19 in a suicide bomb attack against the U.N compound in Baghdad.
In the deadliest attack ever against the U.N. organization, a suicide bomber drove a flatbed truck loaded with 1,500 pounds of explosive up to the wall of the compound, just under Vieira de Mello’s office, and set it off. More than 20 people were killed and dozens were wounded in the attack.