By Xinhua
Baghdad : Iraqi troops have discovered the remains of some 17 bodies dumped in an area in the volatile province of Diyala, a source from provincial and Iraq liaison office said Wednesday.
The badly decomposed bodies were found Tuesday night in a small river near the village of Hashimiyat, west of Baquba, the capital of Diyala province, said the source from the provincial joint coordination centre on condition of anonymity.
“The security forces could not retrieve the bodies because we need some back up as the area was booby-trapped,” the source said.
On Tuesday, the Iraqi security forces announced they had discovered the remains of 22 bodies in a mass grave in the western province of Anbar.
Diyala in northeast of Baghdad has long been the hot-bed of insurgency led by Al Qaeda in Iraq network, and sectarian violence between the Sunni and Shiite communities.