Gunmen wearing police uniforms raided bus stations in central Baghdad, nabbing at least 50 people, including drivers and passengers preparing to travel outside Iraq, including two Syrians, an interior ministry official said.
According to the AP, the attackers also seized people working in the area, where several travel agencies are based and buses pick up passengers traveling mostly to Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, Lt. Colonel Falah al-Mohamedawi said.
Also on Monday, gunmen in a car killed two Sunni brothers as they were driving to college in the neighborhood of Sadiyah in southwestern Baghdad, police Lt. Maitham Abdul Razzaq said. The victims, Ahmed and Arkan Sarhan were in their early 20s.
Iraqi police also found the blindfolded and bound body of a man who had been shot in the head and chest elsewhere in the capital, Razzaq added.
In the city of Baquba, northeast of Baghdad four civilians were killed in different incidents, including an official responsible for water planning in a village just north of the city.
Elsewhere, U.S.-led forces fired artillery at the train station in the western city of Ramadi, "targeting four military-aged males unloading a weapons cache," according to the U.S.-Iraqi Joint Operations Center.
A hospital official, Dr. Omar al-Duleimi, said five civilians were killed and 15 wounded by American forces in Ramadi.
