Dozens of bodies found in Baghdad
Bodies routinely show signs of torture in Iraq
Baghdad police have recovered the bodies of 46 people around the
city,
one of the highest tolls of suspected sectarian death squad victims
in
recent weeks.
An interior ministry source said the bodies had been found in the 24
hours leading up to Monday evening and most had been tortured.
The source said: "All of them were dumped unceremoniously... some on
garbage dumps, others by the roadside."
The Baghdad mortuary alone took in an average of about 50
unidentified
bodies a day in October, a 10 per cent increase on the previous
month.
Earlier on Monday, at least 14 people were killed in Baghdad,
including 10 in a bombing on a bus.
A bomber blew himself up as a minibus bus passed a major
intersection
in the predominantly Shia neighbourhood of Shaab in northeast
Baghdad.
Twelve other people were wounded in the blast, a police source said.
Earlier still, four people were killed in a series of shootings
around
Baghdad while a bomb exploded on the outskirts of the heavily
fortified Green Zone, the seat of Iraq's government.
Officials targetted
In Diyala, the province northeast of Baghdad, Assim Mahmoud Abbas, a
council member, was killed in a drive-by shooting, council leader
Ibrahim Bajilan said. Another member was wounded in the attack on
their car in Waziriya.
A brigadier-general in Iraq's traffic police was shot dead, along
with
his driver, as he was travelling to work in central Baghdad, police
said.
Muhammed Salim, a police major from the central Karrada district of
Baghdad was abducted and later found dead, an Interior Ministry
source
said.
Gunmen stormed the house of another police major, Maher Moussa,
commander of the Rashad police station in eastern Baghdad, and took
him away, the same source said. His fate is unknown.
Gunmen also opened fire on the car carrying a presidential council
adviser as it drove through Mansur in western Baghdad, killing two
bodyguards.
Green Zone blast
A car bomb exploded in a garage used by defence ministry employees
outside the Green Zone, destroying 13 cars but wounding only one
person.
Among others killed on Monday was Mohammed al-Ban, a cameraman for
Iraq's independent Al-Sharqiyah satellite television, who was killed
leaving his Mosul home on Monday morning. His wife was wounded.
Al-Ban is the second journalist from the channel killed in recent
weeks. Anchorwoman Leqaa Abdul Razzaq was shot late last month as
she
was travelling in south Baghdad's Dura district.
At least 89 journalists have been killed in Iraq since March 2003,
according to the Associated Press. Thirty-five people employed by
media organisations, including drivers, interpreters and guards,
have
also died.
Four male primary school teachers were killed while driving in their
vehicle in the oil city of Kirkuk in the north. They were killed by
gunmen riding in another vehicle, police said.
"Terrorists killed"
The US military announced that eight "terrorists" had been killed
and
41 suspects detained in a series of raids around Baghdad.
The eight were killed after refusing to surrender and attempting to
escape from a building that had been raided.
"The detainees are believed to have close ties with members of the
al-Qaeda in Iraq group as well as links to foreign fighter
facilitators," the military said.
It said the group had been active "with local vehicle-borne
improvised
explosive devices [car bombs] and supporting the foreign fighter
network".
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