More than 6,000 corpses found in Iraq in five months

Baghdad - Every morning as ambulance cars and police vehicles rush to
the hospital in Bab al-Mo'adham carrying corpses of unidentified
victims. teenagers and elderly men forms in front of
the morgue as people search for their relatives. fearing they might be
found among the bodies.
one of their family member is lost or kidnapped by gunmen and
then turns up after a week or so later as a corpse with gunshot wounds
on the body. a further victim of the latest wave of sectarian violence
that has swept through Iraq in recent months.
Iraq's main morgue had never received that huge number of corpses on a
daily basis - not since modern Iraq was established in 1920s.
According to statistics by Iraq's morgues institute. Morgues institute officials said that since the institute was
established in 1927. it had never received such a huge number of
corpses as currently. Before the US-led coalition invasion of Iraq and the toppling of Saddam
Hussein in 2003. the institute used to receive only seven to 10 corpses
per day.
In occupied and conflict-ridden Iraq. the morgues have become the daily
destination fonot so very far apart after all.