Girl found dead near Makhmour

ARBIL / IraqiNews.com: Iraqi army forces on Monday found a body belonging to a girl near Makhmour district, northern Iraq, according to an army source. “On Monday morning, army forces found an unknown body belonging to a girl in western al-Kowir (23 km north of Makhmour district),” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The body bore signs of gunshot wounds and was taken to the morgue,” the source added. Makhmour is one of the disputed areas between the central government in Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government Kurdistan RegionG). It is administratively affiliated with Ninewa province and lies 68 km southwest of Arbil, the capital city of Kurdistan, which is 362 km northeast of Baghdad. SS (P) 1