36 executed bodies found in Iraq (AFP)

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraqi police found the bodies of 36 men executed with a bullet to the head and dumped in a stream south of Baghdad.

"Thirty-six bodies of men aged 25 to 35 ... all shot in the head, were found dumped in a stream in Oraida, 25 kilometers (15 miles) east of Kut," 175 kilometers (110 miles) south of Baghdad, an interior ministry source said Thursday.

The decomposing bodies, all wearing civilian clothes, were thought to have been dead around five days and had their hands bound or handcuffed, he added.

AFP Photo: An Iraqi grieves outside the emergency room of the general hospital in Baquba. Iraqi police...

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