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60 Killed in Iraq

HeadlineApr 23, 2007

In other Iraq news, at least 60 people died across the country on Sunday. In the deadliest incident, Sunni gunmen assassinated 23 members of a religious sect known as the Yazidis. The 23 Yazidis were traveling on a bus from their job at a government textile factory. A group of gunmen stopped the bus and pulled the passengers out. The Yazidis were then lined up against a wall and shot.

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