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Bodies, heads of 19 Iraqis found
29/01/2008 14:52 - (SA)
Baquba - Iraqi police said they found the remains of 19 murdered men in the volatile northeastern province of Diyala on Tuesday, including 10 heads removed from their bodies.
And two people were killed and around 20 wounded in a series of bomb blasts in Baghdad, while a suicide bomber targeting a US patrol wounded 10 Iraqis in the northern city of Mosul, where five US soldiers were killed on Monday.
The gruesome discovery in Diyala was made near the town of Moqdadiyah, 65km from Baghdad, provincial police official Lieutenant-Colonel Ismael al-Juburi said.
He said the victims had all been killed in the past few days.
The nine victims whose bodies were found intact had been shot dead, according to Ahmed Fuad, head of the hospital morgue in Baquba. All the victims were men, but their identities were unknown.
Diyala province is one of the most dangerous in Iraq and a stronghold of the Iraqi branch of al-Qaeda. Earlier this month, US-Iraqi forces launched a major sweep in the province targeting the jihadists.
- AFP
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