9 Iraqis shot to death in attack on minibus

An Iraqi boy mourns over the body of his father who was killed with eight others as they boarded a bus, yesterday at the morgue of a local hospital in the city of Baquba, northeast of Baghdad.. PHOTO: AFP

Two more people were wounded in the drive-by shooting in the village of Abu Saida, northeast Baquba, police added.

Police initially said the Iraqis worked on a nearby US military base, but a local village official, Awad Nuri, told AFP they were employed on nearby farms.