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22 corpses found in Iraq
27/09/2005 22:42 - (SA)
Baghdad - Police on Tuesday found the corpses of 22 Iraqi men who had been shot to death in southern Iraq, the government said.
The victims, all dressed in civilian clothes, had been shot in the head and dumped in a deserted area of Badrah district northeast of Kut city and 160km southeast of Baghdad, the capital, said Major Felah Al-Mohammedawi of Iraq's Interior Ministry.
He said most of the bodies were blindfolded with their hands tied together with rope or strips of plastic. Al-Mohammedawi said the victims seemed to have been killed several days ago. Their identities were not immediately known, but the district near the Iranian border is mostly Shiite.
Several times over recent months large groups of bodies have been found in several areas of Iraq, including Baghdad. Police often blame Sunni-led insurgents for such killings. But Al-Mohammedawi said the cause of the deaths near Kut would be investigated.
- AP
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