BAGHDAD - Police on Monday recovered 17 bullet-riddled bodies in Baghdad as rebels killed nine people in fresh attacks across the country. Twelve bodies of men shot to death were found in Baghdad’s notorious Dura neighborhood, while three corpses were recovered in the capital’s Al Shuala district and two more in the Shiite Kadimiyah neighborhood, an interior ministry official said. “Of the 12 bodies found in Dura, two were found inside a foreign car, while five next to the car,” the official said.Hundreds of bodies have been recovered in the last two months across Iraq since sectarian clashes erupted between the Shiites and the Sunnis after the bombing of a Shiite shrine in the northern town of Samarra on February 22.
IraqÂ’s Sunni leaders claim that most of the corpses have been identified as Sunni Arabs allegedly shot to death by Shiite-led interior ministry forces.
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