Sepcial Report: Tension accelerates in Iraq

    BAGHDAD, May 9 (Xinhua) -- The bodies of four Iraqis including three headless corpses were found in an area south of Baghdad on Tuesday, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua. The bodies were discovered near the mixed Sunni and Shiite town of Suwayra, some 40 km south of Baghdad, the source said on condition of anonymity.

    The three headless corpses were wearing uniforms of Iraqi security forces, he said.

    Earlier in the day, a police source said that Iraqi police patrols discovered 10 bodies riddled with bullets in different tparts of Baghdad.

    Some of the bodies were showing signs of torture with bullet holes in their heads and chests, the source said. More execution-style bodies have been found in the capital in the past few days.

    A Sunni Arab leader complained last week that the central morgue of Baghdad received more than 1,000 unidentified bodies in April alone, most of them Sunnis.

    "More than 1,000 unidentified bodies have been admitted to Baghdad central morgue, most of them Sunnis, many were shot in the head with signs of torture," said Adnan al-Dulaimi, who heads the largest Sunni Arab bloc in the parliament.

    Following a bombing attack that destroyed a holy Shiite shrine in the northern Iraqi city of Samarra on Feb. 22, waves of sectarian strifes have been ravaging the country. Enditem