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The Hindu News Update Service: "Police find eight severed heads near Baqouba in Iraq

Baghdad, June 3. (AP): The Iaqi police today found eight severed heads, north of Baghdad with a note indicating at least one of the men were killed in retaliation for the slaying of four Shiite doctors, authorities said.

Five of the slain men were security guards at a hospital complex in the capital, who had been arrested by Iraqi police on Thursday, Lt. Col. Adil Al-Zihari of the Diyala police said.

Notes found with the heads near a highway in the Hadid village near the volatile city of Baqouba, 60 kilometers northeast of Baghdad, said one of those killed was Abdul Aziz al-Sheik Hamad and accused him of killing four Shiite doctors and a former governor during the administrator of former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi."