The Iraqi army unearthed 30 decomposed bodies in a series of shallow graves in northern Iraq's volatile Diyala province, the army said on Saturday. The bodies were found over three days in the predominantly Shia village of Albu-Toma, north of Baghdad, where Sunni Islamist al Qaeda militants once ruled and carried out frequent mass sectarian killings against Shias.
"We know this area contains many graves. We may find more bodies in the future," an army officer on the scene, who declined to be named because he was not authorised to speak, told.