BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- The bodies of more than 50 people have been recovered from the Tigris River and have been identified, President Jalal Talabani said Wednesday. The bodies were believed to have been those of hostages seized in the Madain region earlier this month.

In a separate discovery, another 19 Iraqis were shot to death and left lined up against a bloodstained wall in a soccer stadium in the town of Haditha, about 140 miles northwest of Baghdad, an Iraqi reporter and residents said.

At a news briefing, Talabani said more than 50 bodies were pulled from the Tigris.

"We have the full names of those who were killed and those criminals who committed these crimes," he said.

However, he provided the information in response to a question about the search for hostages reportedly seized from the Madain region, south of Baghdad...