http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040615/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_funeral&cid=540&ncid=1473BAGHDAD, Iraq - Dozens of angry Shiites accused Fallujah police Tuesday of handing over Shiite truck drivers to Sunni extremists who slaughtered them after they sought refuge at a police station. Iraqi authorities denied the charge.
The allegations were raised at a funeral service in Baghdad's Firdos Square for six Shiite truck drivers whose bodies were found Monday at a morgue in Ramadi, west of Fallujah.
Mourners said the men were delivering a load of tents to the Fallujah Brigade, a force that cooperates with the U.S. military in the restive city 40 miles west of the capital.
On their return trip to Baghdad on June 5, the drivers were stopped by armed men who identified themselves as "mujahedeen," fighters who battled Marines to a standstill in April.
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