Iraqi police on Thursday found 14 bodies of kidnapped people near a town in Diyala province, according to a provincial police source.
"Our patrols found 14 bodies dumped in a poultry farm near the town of Hibhib, some 60 km northeast of Baghdad," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
The police identified the 14 bodies as for people who have been abducted earlier by gunmen from their homes in a village near the town of Hibhib, the source said.
Late on Wednesday, dozens of gunmen stormed a village located some 10 km west of Baquba, the capital of Diyala province, and kidnapped 15 people, the source said.
The fifteenth abducted villager is still missing, he said.
The town Hibhib is the same place in Diyala province where a U. S. air strike killed Iraq's former al-Qaida mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi last year.
It was the scene of another deadly suicide car bomb attack earlier on Thursday, which targeted a police checkpoint outside the town, killing eight people, including four policemen and wounding three others.
Source: Xinhua
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