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| Dozens of bodies found in Baghdad | Dozens of bodies found in Baghdad |
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| Forty-seven bodies have been found across Baghdad, police say, pushing the total number of corpses found in recent days to 176. | Forty-seven bodies have been found across Baghdad, police say, pushing the total number of corpses found in recent days to 176. |
| Many of the victims had been tortured or shot in the head or chest. | Many of the victims had been tortured or shot in the head or chest. |
| Police said 21 bodies were found in eastern Baghdad, and the other 26 in the west of the city. | Police said 21 bodies were found in eastern Baghdad, and the other 26 in the west of the city. |
| A BBC correspondent in Baghdad says many are likely to have been killed by sectarian death squads, but some may have been victims of criminal gangs. | A BBC correspondent in Baghdad says many are likely to have been killed by sectarian death squads, but some may have been victims of criminal gangs. |
| The discovery of the 47 bodies came just a day after police said they had recovered 50 corpses from the city's streets in a 24 hour period. | |
| Baghdad has been hit by a rising wave of sectarian violence over the past six months. | |
| Thousands have died amid high tensions between the city's Shia and Sunni Muslim communities since the bombing of a holy Shia shrine in the city of Samarra in February. | |
| Sunni militants and Shia death squads are regularly blamed for abductions and murders. |