Dozens of bodies found in Baghdad
The bodies of 15 men have been found in an abandoned vehicle in Baghdad,
Iraqi interior ministry officials say.
The men had their hands and feet tied and showed signs of torture. They
were found in the Khadra district, a mainly Sunni area of west Baghdad.
About 50 corpses have been found in the capital over the past 24 hours.
Other bodies were found in both Sunni and Shia areas of the capital,
including four reportedly strung up from electricity pylons in Sadr City.
Fifty people were killed and 90 injured by bomb attacks in the eastern
Shia district on Sunday.
Radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr appealed for calm on Monday and said he
would order his Mehdi Army militia not to respond to attacks.
Sunni district
The latest victims were found in a minibus at about 0945 (0645 GMT) on
the main road between Amariya and Ghazaliya in the west of the capital.
Interior ministry spokesman Maj Falah al-Mohammedawi said the men, aged
between 25 and 40, had been shot in the head and chest.
Their identities were not immediately known.
They were found not far from where the bodies of 18 men were discovered
last week.
Iraq has been experiencing a surge in sectarian violence since a bomb
attack on one of the most important Shia shrines at Samarra last month.
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