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Baghdad, – Iraqi security forces in the city of
Sulaimaniyah (Iraqi Kurdistan) yesterday arrested a
drug ring that included six Iranians and confiscated
large amounts of illegal drugs smuggled from Iran
and Afghanistan, the Iraqi daily Al-Watan said
today.
A security official in the city announced that the
group, who were also marketing the drugs, had been
under police surveillance.
The official said that in the confiscated goods
there were also 200 litres of precursors for
explosives.
He added that local security forces had been able to
detain a further 19 individuals for marketing drugs
in the area, adding that the majority of these
people were Iranians. He cautioned similar
individuals smuggling drugs from the Iranian border
that the law in Iraqi Kurdistan permitted heavy
sentences for such crimes including the execution of
those convicted.
Separately a police official in Ziqar announced that
10 Iranians had been arrested illegally crossing the
border from Iran.
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