17 Die in Iraq as Bus Bound for Kuwait Overturns
Seventeen people were killed Sunday when their bus overturned in southern Iraq as they were returning to Kuwait from the funeral of a leading Shiite Muslim cleric, Kuwait’s state news agency reported.
The agency quoted Kuwaiti Health Minister Mohammed Jarallah as saying that 33 others were injured in the accident near the southern city of Nasiriyah. The injured were taken to three hospitals in Kuwait.
They were part of an original convoy of more than 25 buses that carried hundreds of Shiites from Kuwait on Friday for the funeral of religious authority Merza Abdulrasoul Haeri Ehqaqi, who was 75. The Kuwaiti cleric’s body was taken for burial to the Iraqi holy city of Karbala by family and followers. Ehqaqi died Wednesday in London, where he had sought treatment for an unspecified ailment.
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