Gunmen kill 22 bus passengers in west Iraq: police

IRAQ, Sept 13: 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 in the desert region of Noukhair," he said.[break]



The region is about 300 kilometres (185 miles) west of Baghdad.

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