Baghdad mortuary sees rise in number of corpses

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Source: AFP

Baghdad mortuary sees rise in number of corpses
by Jay Deshmukh
Mon Mar 24, 10:45 AM ET

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Baghdad's main mortuary has seen a rise in the number of corpses received in the past fortnight amid a new wave of violence in and around the Iraqi capital, its director told AFP on Monday.

The mortuary has received an average of 15 bodies per day of people killed in attacks in Baghdad in the past two weeks, Munjid Redha Ali said.

This is up from an average of two bodies a day since the beginning of the year, as overall violence dropped following the enforcement of a security plan across the city.

"There is a spike in the number of corpses of people who have died violent deaths in the past 15 days," Redha Ali told AFP.

"We hope the trend that we are seeing now does not continue," he said, adding most of the victims had "blast or bullet" wounds.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080324/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestbaghdadmorgue

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