Iraqi police Tuesday found the bodies of 24 people who had apparently been tortured and shot before being dumped in two separate locations in Baghdad, police said. Eleven bullet-riddled corpses, with their hands and legs bound, were found near a school in the Shiite dominated Maalif neighborhood in southern Baghdad, police 1st Lt. Mutaz Salahiddin said. Police found the bodies of another 13 people, believed to have been aged between 25 and 35, dumped behind a Shiite mosque in the Turath neighborhood in western Baghdad, said police 1st Lt. Maitham Abdul-Razaq. He said the bodies were all handcuffed, showed signs of torture and had been shot in the head. None of the corpses had been identified, the Associated Press reported.
