AFP: Baghdad mortuary sees rise in number of corpses
Redha Ali confirmed that violence was down compared to the raging bloodshed witnessed in the months after the bombing of a revered Shiite shrine in February 2006, which unleashed brutal sectarian strife across Iraq.”After the shrine bombing, we used to receive 160 bodies on the peak days of the violence. On average, we received 70 bodies a day from the time of the bombing until the end of 2007,” he said.
Redha Ali said since the beginning of 2008, the mortuary had noticed a new grim trend — the arrival of bodies of women, mostly married, who had been killed with gunshots to the head.
At least two out of every 10 bodies were of murdered women between 20 and 30 years of age.
“We have no idea what is the reason for the killing but most of them have gun shots,” Redha Ali said.
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