Iraqi troops find 27 bodies near Iran border

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Iraqi troops find 27 bodies near Iran border


KUT, Iraq, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Iraqi troops in the south of the country have found the bodies of 27 people who had been tied up and shot, army sources said on Thursday.

A cameraman working for Reuters who filmed the bodies near the Iranian border said they were found blindfolded with their hands tied behind their backs and had been shot.

Grisly discoveries are regularly reported in Iraq, where the Shi'ite- and Kurdish-led government is battling a Sunni insurgency, and where Sunnis themselves accuse Shi'ite militias of attacking them, sometimes with the collusion of security forces.

There was no immediate indication of who the victims were, though similar finds in the past involved Iraqi security forces.