Bodies of apparent Iraqi Republican Guard soldiers lie on the ground as US Marines search around a bus shot up earlier on a key road in Qat'at Sukkar in central Iraq
on March 27, 2003. Marines treated enemy wounded on Thursday and searched the blood-stained luggage of Iraqis killed inside a bus by a storm of bullets from advancing armoured units. Reporters counted four corpses outside the bus and marines said another 16 lay inside. All the bodies were adult men, wearing a mixture of civilian and military clothing and had papers that appeared to identify them as Iraqi Republican Guard.
— Reuters
