Selasa, 13 September 2011

Gunmen attack Shiite pilgrims in western Iraq, kill 22

BAGHDAD — Gunman hijacked a bus of Shiite religious pilgrims traveling through a Sunni area in western Iraq late Monday night, killing 22, officials said.

A government spokesman said the bus had just entered a desolate valley west of Ramadi when gunmen set up a fake checkpoint, then hijacked the tour bus of pilgrims from Karbala on their way to a holy shrine in Damascus. As the Iraqi military launched a helicopter search, the tour group was taken out into the desert and 22 men aboard were shot to death, a military spokesman said.

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Lally Weymouth 13 Sep, 2011


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