Nine severed heads found in fruit boxes near Baghdad
Police found nine severed heads in fruit boxes near a volatile city north-east of Baghdad today, authorities said, the second such discovery in less than a week.
The boxes containing the heads – all from men – were discovered by a road in the village of Hadid, near Baqouba, a mixed city 35 miles north-east of Baghdad that has seen a recent rise in sectarian violence.
The heads were transferred to the city morgue and an investigation was under way, according to the Joint Co-operation Centre, which is run by Iraqi and US forces.
Iraqi police also found eight severed heads in the village on Saturday, with a note indicating at least one of those men had been killed in retaliation for the murder of four Shiite doctors and a former governor during the administration of former prime minister Ayad Allawi.
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