BAGHDAD - Two officials from Iraq’s finance ministry were shot dead in a restive area in west Baghdad on Sunday while at another flashpoint the police discovered nine bodies, according to the Voices of Iraq news agency VOI.‘The bodies of Qutayba Badr Al Din Mahmud, who is a consultant at the finance ministry, and Osama Kazem Muhammad, an employee at the ministry, were found Sunday morning in a car in Jamya district in west Baghdad,’ security sources were quoted by VOI as saying. Jamya district is a hotbed of violence in west Baghdad.