MOSUL: Attacks north of Baghdad killed five people yesterday, officials said, while police found two corpses bearing signs of torture, a scene reminiscent of the country’s all-out sectarian war.
The violence comes ahead of annual Shia religious commemorations, when Sunni militants often mount attacks, and as Iraq grapples with continuing bloodshed.
The spike in unrest has spurred Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki to appeal for greater cooperation with the United States in combatting militancy, and on Sunday Turkey offered to help as well. In Mosul, three separate shootings killed one soldier, wounded another and left two civilians dead, police and medical officials said. Near the University of Mosul, a taxi driver was killed when a magnetic “sticky” bomb was attached to his car.
Elsewhere in the city, police found the body of a soldier in the Tigris river. The soldier had suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the head and his body bore signs of torture.
In Salaheddin province, police found another corpse bearing signs of torture, including some fingers having been cut off.
AFP
