BAGHDAD - Iraqi authorities hanged 27 convicted "terrorists" on Wednesday, the interior ministry announced.
"Twenty-seven terrorists were hanged today in Baghdad. Most of them were Iraqis," interior ministry spokesman Abdul Karim Khalaf told AFP.
He said they were convicted for attacks on Iraqi civilians and sentenced to death, in an execution order signed by an Iraqi vice president.
Iraq in September 2005 hanged three convicted murderers in the first executions since the toppling of former dictator Saddam Hussein.
The authorities reinstated the death penalty which was abolished after the US-led invasion of March 2003.
09/06/2006 19:30 GMT