Gunmen kill 22 on Iraq bus
- Published: 13/09/2011 at 07:53 AM
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Gunmen killed 22 passengers on a bus coming from Syria late Monday in a desert region of Iraq's western province of Anbar, police general Haider Rzayj told AFP.
A Syrian soldier mans a border post in the desert between Syria and Iraq in 2007. Gunmen killed 22 passengers on a bus coming from Syria late Monday in a desert region west of Baghdad, police general Haider Rzayj told AFP.
"Some armed men stopped the bus coming from Syria Monday around 9:30 pm (1830 GMT), they made the 22 passengers get off the bus and killed them with automatic weapons," he said.
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- Writer: AFP News agency
- Position: Agence France-Presse
