Police find six more bodies

Ankara - Turkish police excavated six bodies in Icel province yesterday, bringing to 31 the number of suspected victims of the…

Ankara - Turkish police excavated six bodies in Icel province yesterday, bringing to 31 the number of suspected victims of the radical underground Turkish Hizbullah found in five days, Anatolia news agency reported.

The bodies, badly decomposed and with their hands and feet tied, were dug up from two graves near the town of Tarsus after a detained Hizbullah commander led police to the spot, the agency said.

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