Bodies Add to Deaths Laid to Kurd Group

Police dug up six bodies near a militant Kurdish Islamic group’s hide-out in southern Turkey, raising to 31 the number of corpses uncovered recently of people believed killed by the militants. The latest grisly find came in a field near Tarsus, 235 miles southeast of the capital, Ankara. In previous days, police found 25 bodies buried on the grounds of four houses in Ankara, Istanbul and Konya. Police believe the victims were slain by the Hezbollah group, which aims to establish an Islamic state in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast. Many of the victims had been tortured, and some had been buried alive, newspapers reported.