Gunmen kill 22 bus travellers

GUNMEN killed 22 passengers on a bus coming from Syria late last night in a desert region west of Baghdad, police general Haider Rzayj told AFP.

“Some armed men stopped the bus coming from Syria 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,” said Rzayj.

The region is about 300km west of Baghdad.