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Misfired missile kills 5 Syrians, another lands in Turkey

REUTERS, Washington
A U.S. plane fired a missile at a bus carrying 37 Syrians home from Iraq, killing five and wounding at least 10, the official SANA news agency said yesterday.
It said the incident occurred on Sunday morning in Iraq's al-Rutbeh area, some 100 miles from the Syrian border.
Meanwhile, two Tomahawk cruise missiles misfired and landed in an unpopulated area of Turkey yesterday, said a US defence official. Earlier, a local governor in Turkey told Reuters that a suspected missile fell near a village in eastern Turkey, not far from the Iraqi border, leaving a large hole in the agricultural fields, but not causing any injuries.
"A U.S. warplane fired a missile at 10 a.m. local time yesterday (Sunday) on a civilian bus carrying Syrian nationals in al-Rutbeh...killing five and wounding at least 10," the SANA news agency said.
The bodies of the five dead Syrians were taken to a Damascus hospital in coffins with Iraqi death certificates, the hospital director, Dr. Abdullah al-Asali, told Reuters. "The deaths were caused by an explosion...We saw shrapnel wounds and distortions due to an explosion," he said.
A source identified the five as Amjad Abou Azab, Asheq al-Warrad, Abdul-Karim al-Hamdou, Ahmad Elaywi, and Salmou Hamamseh. "They were all young, apparently labourers returning home after the war started," he told Reuters.
Ten wounded Syrians were treated at a medical centre at the al-Tanf border post and two at the Damascus hospital. All were released apart from a man with a leg injury, who was transferred to a hospital in his home town, the central city of Hamma, medical sources said.
The bus was carrying 37 people when it was hit, SANA said.
Syrian analyst Imad Shueibi said he did not expect Syria to respond militarily and accused Washington of trying to halt the movement of people between Syria and Iraq.
"It is...an attempt to cut the open road between Syria and Iraq," Shueibi said. "The intention is to provoke us and we will not be (provoked)."
Syria, the only Arab nonpermanent member of the United Nations Security Council, has been a staunch opponent of the U.S.-led war on fellow Arab Iraq.
Oil-rich Iraq has attracted labourers from Arab and Asian countries for years, despite the crippling economic sanctions imposed on Baghdad for its 1990-91 occupation of Kuwait.
Iran warned Sunday that its army would react if there were any further violation of its airspace by the US and British warplanes, said the IRNA.
"Our soldiers on the border are on full alert...If they observe the slightest violation of Iranian airspace or at the border they will certainly react," said the Iranian interior minister.