A bus carrying Kuwaitis returning from the funeral of a Shi'ite Muslim religious leader overturned in southern Iraq today, killing at least 17 people, the Interior Ministry said.
The bus was en route from the holy city of Karbala when it overturned 34 miles from the Iraq-Kuwait border, a ministry official said in Kuwait city.
The bus was part of a 13-vehicle convoy coming back from the funeral of senior Shi'ite cleric, Mirza Abdul-Rasoul al-Ihkaki, who recently died in Kuwait and was taken to Iraq for burial.
A spokesman for British forces in southern Iraq dismissed reports of the convoy being ambushed by
guerrillas.
