Beirut airport on Sunday was the scene of arriving Lebanese visitors whose bus was hit by a bomb attack in Ramadi, west of Baghdad, last week

Beirut airport on Sunday night was the scene of arriving Lebanese visitors whose bus was hit by a bomb attack in Ramadi, west of Baghdad, last week.

Among the arrivals were eight people wounded, four of them seriously.

The bus, related to Shams al-Doha Islamic travel agency, was carrying more than 40 people who were on their way to visit the holy Muslim sites in Iraq.

Wounded visitors were directly taken to the hospital for treatment. People and families welcomed safe visitors with flowers and cheers, but relatives of the martyrs were hailed with mourning and tears.

Representative of the Iraqi Prime Minister accompanied the Lebanese visitors.

Official figures gathered at Beirut airport to welcome the returning visitors and thanked the Iraqi government, especially its premier, for their special care they gave to the case.