NINE severed heads were found today in the latest atrocity in a volatile area north of Baghdad, police said, as Iraqi leaders faced a crisis over filling key security jobs critical to ending rampant bloodshed.
Police in the city of Baquba, 65km north of the capital, said the heads were discovered in plastic bags in its northern al-Hadid district. No other details were immediately available.
It was the second such gruesome discovery in or near Baquba in the last few days. On Saturday, police said they found the cut-off heads of seven cousins and an Sunni Arab Imam by the side of the road outside Baquba.
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