MOSUL, Iraq - The bodies of six young men, all shot in the head as if executed, were discovered in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Tuesday, bringing the total of such corpses found to 14 in two days.
A Reuters correspondent in Iraq's third city saw the six lying in grass at the side of a main highway in western Mosul. They wore civilian clothes and their identities were not clear.
A hospital official said eight similar bodies had been found in a cemetery in the west of the city on Monday.
Dozens of bodies, many from the Iraqi security forces, have turned up in Iraq's third city since Sunni Arab insurgents routed the United States-trained police force last month.
Some have also appeared to be the victims of ethnic strife between Arabs and Kurds in the region.
Other corpses, the victims of guerrilla attacks and banditry, turn up regularly across Iraq.
- REUTERS
Fourteen 'executed' bodies found in Iraq in two days
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