Gunmen opened fire on a minibus carrying power plant workersin a predominantly Sunni area west of
The ambush occurred at 6 a.m. in Manazlah, about 20 miles west of theoil-rich city of
The gunmen were in two cars and sprayed the bus with bullets as they sped byit.
The five killed were engineers and other plant workers from the surroundingBeiji area, Amin said, citing information from soldiers at the site.
The attack came two days after a suicide truck bomber struck a police stationin a Kurdish neighborhood in
Tensions have been rising in the disputed city after thegovernment adopted a plan to relocate thousands of Arabs who were moved to
Two mortar rounds also slammed into a house in the town of
Another mortar attack struck a area in eastern