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Officials: 22 Shiite pilgrims found dead in Iraq

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Two officials say the bodies of 22 Shiite pilgrims who were shot dead have been found in a remote desert area in western Iraq.

 

All of the dead were men. They appeared to have been forced off a bus of pilgrims traveling to a Syrian shrine Monday and shot one by one. Two officials said the pilgrims all were from the holy Shiite city of Karbala in southern Iraq. (AP)

 

 

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