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14 bodies found in mass grave south of Baghdad
Officials say Iraqi soldiers have found 14 bodies buried in a field south of Baghdad.
- AP
- Published: 16:57 April 12, 2008
Baghdad: Officials say Iraqi soldiers have found 14 bodies buried in a field south of Baghdad.
It is the second discovery of mass graves in the area around Mahmoudiya this week, raising to 44 the number of bodies found.
A city spokesman says 12 bodies found on Saturday had been dumped in one grave not far from the local office of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada Al Sadr's movement. Ather Kamil says two others were buried together nearby.
Kamil and an Iraqi army officer say confessions by recently detained Shiite militiamen led to the grisly discovery.
Iraqi troops found the remains of 30 other people believed to have been killed more than a year ago in three abandoned houses elsewhere in the area on Thursday.
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