BAGHDAD, June 4 (Xinhua) -- The Iraqi police found 17 bodies in Baghdad on Sunday, a police source said.

    "Our patrols found seven bodies of men aged between 30 to 40 in the Karrada neighborhood in central Baghdad," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

    The bodies showed signs of torture and were riddled with bullets in the head and chest, he said.

In a separate incident, the police found 10 bodies wrapped up in nylon bags near the Bilat al-Shuhadaa primary school in Baghdad's southern district of Doura, the source added.

Violence and sectarian reprisal attacks have mounted in Iraq since the February bombing of a key Shiite mosque in the northern Iraqi town of Samarra. Enditem