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Two Iraq mass graves yield 100 bodies, says security forces
Iraqi security forces have found more than 100 bodies in two mass graves, military officials said on Sunday.
- Agencies
- Published: 19:13 April 27, 2008
Baghdad: Iraqi security forces have found more than 100 bodies in two mass graves, military officials said on Sunday.
Fifty bodies were found in a mass grave in central Iraq on Sunday, a military source in the area said.
Another team said it had discovered more than 50 bodies in a grave in Mahmudiya, a town 30 km south of Baghdad, on April 17.
The grave found on Sunday was in the village of Al Guba, 80 km north of Baghdad, in the troubled Diyala province, where Al Qaida Sunni Arab militants have regrouped after being driven out of other parts of the country.
Most of the bodies had their hands bound and gunshot wounds in the head. Some were decomposed, according to the military source, who declined to be named.
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