Escapees of Nukheib massacre reunited with their relatives

ANBAR / IraqiNews.com: At least 18 children and a woman, who were able to escape the massacre of Anbar’s al-Nukheib area, which left approximately 25 men who were travelling on a buscarrying pilgrims coming back from Syria to Iraq on Monday night, were reunited with their relatives in different Iraqi provinces, an Anbar Police source reported on Tuesday.   “The Army and Security forces have handed over on Tuesday morning 18 children and a woman, who escaped the massacre of al-Nukheib bus, attacked by a group of terrorists,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency.   He said security forces from other provinces had arrived in Anbar to receive the said children and a women, including 6 from Karbala, 5 from Falluja and Ramadi, 4 from Salah al-Din and 3 from Baghdad, adding that they were handed over following the completion of investigation with them, as eyewitnesses to the incident.   An armed group had kidnapped a bus, carrying about 30 persons, coming from Syria in Wadi al-Qadhir, 70 km from al-Nukheib township in Anbar Province, forcing women and children to get off of the bus and shooting dead 22 men.   SKH (TI)/SR 327