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Police officer killed, 20 bodies found in Baghdad
Baghdad, Oct 18, (VOI) – Unknown gunmen shot dead an Iraqi police officer in eastern Baghdad while 20 bodies were found dumped in different places in Baghdad city during the last 24 hours, Iraqi interior ministry sources said on Wednesday.
“Gunmen shot dead on Wednesday morning the police captain Imad Abbas in Baladiyat neighborhood, east of Baghdad,” one of the sources told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).
“20 bodies were found dumped in different places in Baghdad city during the last 24 hours,” an interior ministry source said.
Most of the bodies “were unidentified and some bore torture marks while most were killed with gunshots in different parts of the body,” said the source who declined to be named.
The death toll has been on the rise with an escalation in sectarian killings. The United Nations estimate that about 100 people are killed everyday in Iraq
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