Fifteen corpses found in Baghdad mass grave

CNN ^ | November 18, 2008 | Yousif Bassil and Jomana Karadsheh

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Police in northern Baghdad found a mass grave Tuesday that contained the remains of 15 people, an Interior Ministry official said.

The grave was in a house under construction in the Ur neighborhood, which used to be controlled by Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army militia.

Authorities were attempting to determine who the victims were and when they died.

In other incidents, two bombs in a car exploded in Nineveh province's Sinjar area Tuesday. A civilian was killed and 11 were wounded, authorities in Mosul said.

A roadside bomb exploded in front of the western Baghdad house of an Electricity Ministry official. The official, Saadi Mahdi, and his wife were injured.

Roadside bombs in northern, central and southern Baghdad on Tuesday wounded five other people, including two police officers.

Meanwhile, Iraq's prime minister on Tuesday touted the recently signed U.S.-Iraqi security agreement and maintained it will usher in an era of full sovereignty in three years' time.

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