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Iraqi security powers have discovered the groups of 53 men shot as of late close to a town south of Baghdad, police say.

The men, who were still bound and had shot wounds to the head or midsection, were found in Hamza al-Gharbi, 30km (18 miles) south-east of the city of Hilla.

It was not quickly clear who the victimized people were or why they were murdered.

The principally Shia range has not seen any movement by the jihadist-headed Sunni rebels who have seized control of huge swathes of northern and western Iraq.

Be that as it may, to the north is a range of Babil area that got known as the "Triangle of Death" in light of the fierceness of the partisan roughness there in the years that emulated the 2003 US-headed intrusion of Iraq.

At the top of the civil war in 2006 and 2007, many slug ridden bodies were discovered every day on Iraq's roads.