Young man found dead near Makhmour

ARBIL / IraqiNews.com: Iraqi army forces on Saturday found a body belonging to a young man near Makhmour district, northern Iraq, according to an army source. “On Saturday morning, army forces found an unknown body belonging to a man in his mid-twenties near Diyowazenti village (23 km west 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