ANBAR / Aswat al-Iraq: West Iraq’s Anbar Police have reported on Thursday that the Army and Police forces have detained 11 suspected persons charged with having been behind the Nukeib massacre that killed 22 men in Anbar Province last Monday, an Anbar security source reported.“An Army and Police force had managed to arrest 11 suspected elements, charged with involvement in kidnapping and killing 22 men of a passenger bus in Anbar’s Nukheib township, along with a stolen car and 2 explosive belts,” the security source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
An armed group had kidnapped a 30-passenger bus, coming from Syria in al-Qadher Valley, 70 km away from Nukheib township in west IraqÂ’s Anbar Province last Monday, forced women and children out of the bus and shot dead 22 of its men passengers.