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World: Iraq's Tigris River Yields Hundreds of Corpses

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Tuesday, 10 October 2006
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"Swaira County is in the southern death triangle of Baghdad," the police force head noted.

The Tigris River is not the only place where bodies are found. Others include a sewage treatment plant in the southern Baghdad suburb of al Rustomia, and the Al Maleh canal that irrigates farming country to the west of Baghdad. It's a predominantly Sunni area where many Shiite pilgrims have been killed over the past two years in towns like Latifia, Yousofia and Mahmodia.

Imad Abdullah, 35, had four relatives who worked on farms in the Boaitha area south of Baghdad abducted on May 7. Abdullah found the bodies of his brother and cousin two weeks later at Swaira police station, where they had been taken after being fished out of the river. Another cousin's corpse was at the Baghdad morgue. His other brother is still missing.

Abdullah said he was advised to go to Swaira to look for their bodies.


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