Iraqis find bodies of 14 slain men in Mosul

MOSUL, Iraq, Dec 14 (AFP) - The bodies of 14 men killed with a single bullet to the head were found in a cemetery in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Tuesday, local medical officials and an AFP journalist said.
"We have received the bodies of eight young men executed with a bullet to the head," said doctor Ahmad Abdallah Rajab of Mosul's general hospital, adding that they had been dead about 15 hours.
Forensics were in the process of identifying the victims, he added.
The AFP journalist who went to the cemetery where the eight were found, said that he saw another six bodies in civilian clothes, killed in the same fashion.
Since early December, more than 60 bodies, mostly of Iraqi security forces personnel, have been found in the Mosul area after being executed and dumped by insurgents patrolling the predominantly Sunni Muslim city.

12/14/2004 12:50 GMT - AFP