(VOI) - Police forces on Friday arrested a kinapping and plandering gang on a main road leading to a border town in Wassit, the police chief said. "A forces from Wassit police department captured a five-person gang suspected of involvement in kidnapping and plunderin on Jassan-Dibouni road, 65 km north Kut", Brig. Gen. Abdel Haneen al-Imara, Wassit's police chief, told Aswat al-Iraq-Voices of Iraq(VOI).
The police official noted "the arrest operation was based on intelligence tips-off stating an armed group was plundering on Jassan-Dibouni road. The road is main way for passengers and lorry drivers travelling to Iran via Zurbatiya border crossing. He added "the gang hid kidnapped people in a cellar inside livestock farm in al-Aziziya district. |