Updated - December 04, 2021 11:24 pm IST
Published - July 09, 2014 03:57 pm IST - BAGHDAD
Iraqi officials discovered 50 bodies, many of them blindfolded and with their hands bound, in an agricultural area outside a city south of Baghdad on Wednesday, authorities said.
Military spokesman Brig. Gen. Saad Maan Ibrahim said the bodies had gunshot wounds and were found south of the city of Hillah. He said an investigation was underway to determine the identities of the dead as well as the circumstances of the killings.
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