#Iraq bus attack kills 51 prisoners, 9 policemen
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Suicide bombers and gunmen Thursday attacked a bus transferring convicts from a prison north of #Baghdad, sparking fierce clashes with security forces that left 51 prisoners and nine policemen dead, Ministry of Justice and medical sources said. It was not immediately clear who launched the assault, which targeted a security convoy escorting a bus that was transferring around 60 prisoners, many of them held on terrorism charges, from the main prison in Taji, some 25 kilometers north of Baghdad. read more