BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Thirty bodies, most of them beheaded, were found on the main street of a village north of Baghdad on Sunday, stepping up pressure on divided Iraqi leaders to form a government they hope can avert sectarian civil war.
Iraqi army officials said the corpses were found in Mulla Eed near the town of Baquba, 65 km north of the capital. The motive for the killings was not clear but they fit a pattern of rapidly escalating sectarian violence.
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