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Five Iranian pilgrims killed in Iraq bus attack

Five Iranian pilgrims killed in Iraq bus attack
# 27 January 2010 11:08 (UTC +04:00)
Baku. Suleyman Ferzeliyev-APA. Five Iranians were killed in the early hours of Wednesday when gunmen opened fire on a convoy buses taking pilgrims to Shi’ite Muslim holy sites in Iraq, police in restive Diyala province said, APA reports.
The shooting took place on a highway connecting the Iranian border to Baghdad and southern Iraq, about 45 km (27 miles) northeast of the provincial capital Baquba, the police official said on condition of anonymity.He said five pilgrims were killed, including one woman, and 32 others were wounded when the last bus in a vehicle convoy came under fire. After the April attack, Iran temporarily closed several border crossing with Iraq for Iranian citizens and convoys through Diyala were rerouted for a time.
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