Iraqis find 20 bodies

The bodies of 20 people, bound and shot in the head, have been found on a military firing range in the eastern suburbs of Baghdad, police said yesterday.

The identities of the victims were unclear and the bodies appeared to have been there some time, one police source said. They were found on Friday and were now in a Baghdad morgue, another police officer said.

Such finds have become a grim routine of the violence in Iraq. In the couple of months since a Shi'ite-led government was formed, more than 900 people have been killed, fuelling fears that the nation could be pitched into civil war.