Gunmen kill 11 Iraqi students, kidnap transport workers

Gunmen killed at least 11 college students after stopping a bus in Baghdad and kidnapped up to 50 transport company employees in the Iraqi capital on Monday, Interior Ministry sources said. The sources said the bus was carrying 20 college students in Baghdad's Dora district. Police had no immediate information on the attack, which took place a day after 24 people, mostly teenage students, were dragged from vehicles in Iraq and killed. Police said the abductions appeared to be a coordinated operation against firms offering transport to Syria and Jordan. "It took them about five minutes to take people away. One, two, three, four -- one after another," said witness Hamza Ali, adding the gunmen were armed with rifles and grenades and had arrived in 10 pick-up trucks.

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