27 unidentified bodies found in Iraq
Iraqi official sources confirmed finding the bodies of 22 unidentified persons in an agricultural area north of al-Kout areas, southwest of Baghdad.
A source in the Iraqi army asked to remain anonymous said that Iraqi soldiers found these bodies in Badra area, near the Iraqi-Iranian borders. Police sources said that the victims were wearing civilian clothes, but some of them had personal investigation cards associated with the police.
One Iraqi military source announced finding other five bodies for Iraqi soldiers at the main road between Baghdad and al-Kout. The source added that the killed soldiers were exposed to fire and they are members in al-Karrar squad which takes al-Nuumaneyah military base as headquarters.
In another development, the American army confirmed finding a booby trapped car placed at a check point, and its driver was arrested.
Various parts of Iraq witnessed during the past hours attacks and explosions, the most violence of which targeted a center for recruiting Iraqi police in the downtown of Baqouba, northeast of Baghdad, in which 10 persons were killed and other 26 injured.
In Baghdad, two Iraqis were killed and other 12 injured in an armed attack at a bus carrying Iraqi prisoners to Abu Ghreib jail, while one police man was killed and other three injured in another attack targeting a police vehicle in al-Khadra quarters, west of Baghdad. Two police men were killed one of them an officer in a bomb explosion in two separate incidents in Karkouk, north of Baghdad.
