Seven Pakistanis were killed, and 19 others injured, when the bus they were travelling in through western Iraq overturned, a doctor said.
“Seven Pakistanis were killed when their bus flipped over on the road from Amman to Baghdad,” said Iyad Arak, director of the main hospital in Ramadi, the capital of western Anbar province.
Arak said 19 others, all Pakistanis, were hurt in the accident, which occurred around 260 kilometres west of Baghdad. He added that casualties were possibly migrant workers.
Deputy Governor of Anbar province, Hikmat Jasim Zaidan, said the bus was traveling to the holy city of Samarra when it overturned west of the provincial capital of Ramadi.
As police arrived at the scene, insurgents attacked their police vehicles, wounding one police officer, Zaidan said. The police are investigating whether the accident was an ambush to lure the police.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 27th, 2011.
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