The bullet-riddled corpses of 10 unidentified young men have been discovered in eastern Baghdad, Iraqi security officials have said.The officials said that the bodies were found on Thursday in an abandoned building near the district of Sadr City, AFP reported.
The victims had been shot in the head and chest, according to the officials.
An army source said that the men, aged 17 to 25, had been dead for up to two days.
It was not clear who was behind the killings.
On Thursday, at least eight people were killed and 25 wounded in a bomb attack in a market in Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad, while five people, including four soldiers, died in other attacks, officials said.
The incidents are the latest in a string of attacks across Iraq that have left more than 4,000 people dead since the beginning of April 2013.
According to the United Nations, 1,057 Iraqis, including 928 civilians, were killed and another 2,326 were wounded in terrorist attacks throughout the country in July -- the deadliest month since 2008.
And 804 Iraqis lost their lives in August in the deadly attacks, a third of which took place in Baghdad.
In an interview with Press TV in July, an international human rights lawyer said that foreign powers are attempting to fabricate and benefit from Shia-Sunni discord in Iraq and elsewhere, seeking to see the Muslim world weakened in the wake of such rifts.
Who benefits is of course the key issue. Its really not the people of Iraq, its not the Sunnis, its not the Shias. It is external powers that want to exploit and create division. Those are the parties that benefit, said Canada-based attorney Edward Corrigan.
Iraqs Interior Ministry has said that militants have launched an open war in Iraq and they want to push the Middle Eastern country into chaos.
By Press TV
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