Unknown corpse found near Kirkuk market

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: Police forces on Tuesday found a body bearing gunshot wounds south of Kirkuk, according to a local police chief. “This morning, a corpse was found in al-Qadissiya al-Thaniya area near the market in southern Kirkuk,” the director of Orouba’s police, Col. Shirzad Mofry, told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The body belongs to a man aged between 35 and 40. He was blindfolded and had his hands bound. The corpse bore signs of gunshot wounds to the head and has been taken to the morgue in Azadi Hospital,” the colonel noted. Kirkuk, an oil-rich and mixed city of Kurds, Turkmen, Christians and Arabs, lies 250 km northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. SS (P) 1