Fourth body found in Kirkuk

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: Police found a dead body that showed signs of having been shot, the fourth one found in the city of Kirkuk on Saturday, a senior security official said. “A body was found in the area of Musala, near a cemetery in central Kirkuk. It was of a local resident of the name Omar Raji Abbas, born in 1994. The body had the hands tied and showed signs of having been shot,” the source, who is from city’s Joint Coordination Center (JCC), told IraqiNews.com news agency. Earlier, a JCC source said policemen found three unidentified bodies in southern and central Kirkuk. “Two of the bodies were found inside a house under construction in al-Qadissiya neighborhood, southern Kirkuk. Investigations showed that they were of two young men 18-20 years old,” the source told IraqiNews.com. “A third body was found in the area of Musala, near a cemetery in central Kirkuk. It was of a young man in his 20s,” he said. “All the bodies had their hands tied and showed signs of having been shot,” the source added. The oil-rich Kirkuk, a city of mixed Kurdish, Arab and Turkmen population, lies 250 km northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. AmR (TS)/SR 534