Special report: Tension escalates in Iraq

    

The victims of a shooting attack lie outside Yarmouk hospital morgue in Baghdad Jan. 8, 2007. (Xinhua/AFP Photo) Photo Gallery >>>

BAGHDAD, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- Gunmen opened fire on a minibus carrying workers of the Baghdad airport in the west of the capital on Monday, killing four workers and wounding nine others, an Interior Ministry source said.

    "Unknown gunmen showered with bullets a minibus carrying cleaning workers of the Baghdad International Airport near the Nafaq al-Shurta area," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

    The attack damaged the minibus and resulted in the deaths of four workers and the injury of nine others, the source said.

    The attack came before an Iraqi court resumes the genocide trial of six of former Iraqi officials in Baghdad without their codefendants Saddam Hussein, who was hanged on Dec. 30.