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Iraq: Gunmen kill 22 bus passengers
* From correspondents in Ramadi, Iraq
* From: AFP
* September 13, 2011 7:47AM
GUNMEN have killed 22 passengers on a bus coming from Syria in a
desert region west of Baghdad, police general Haider Rzayj says.
"Some armed men stopped the bus coming from Syria on Monday around
9.30pm (4.30am today AEST), they made the 22 passengers get off
the bus and killed them with automatic weapons in the desert
region of Noukhair", he said.
The region is about 300km west of Baghdad.