BAGHDAD (AP) Police around Iraq's capital found the corpses of 13 men Wednesday apparently gunned down in executions, as other attacks in the country killed at least five, authorities said.
Officers found eight corpses dumped in farmland in the Sunni-dominated Arab Jabour district, a police officer said. All of
the dead, men believed to be between the ages of 25 to 35, suffered gunshot to their heads, he said.
Arab Jabour, a former insurgent stronghold, is located about 25 kilometers (15 miles) south of Baghdad.
Authorities found another five corpses in a vacant lot in a residential area of the capital's northwestern Shula neighborhood, the officer said. The slain men, all in their 30s, had their hands and legs tied and suffered gunshots in heads and chests, he said. Officers found no identification on the corpses.
The discovery of executed corpses is a grim reminder of Iraq's sectarian warfare in 2006 and 2007, when both Shiite and Sunni death squads used to roam the streets and raid homes to round up people. Authorities later found the victims' corpses mutilated and left on the street.
