17 killed in Baghdad bus ambush

Gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying employees home from a factory in Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad, yesterday, killing up to 17 people, police and hospital sources said. A source at a Baghdad hospital said it had received the bodies of 17 people killed...

Gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying employees home from a factory in Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad, yesterday, killing up to 17 people, police and hospital sources said.

A source at a Baghdad hospital said it had received the bodies of 17 people killed in the attack. Police sources said 12 people had been killed and nine wounded.

The police sources said the al-Faris factory worked on reconstruction projects. Insurgents often target Iraqis seen as working for the US-backed authorities.

US and Iraqi forces are battling an insurgency led by Sunni Arabs resentful of the Shi'ite and Kurdish-led government in Baghdad.

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