Gunmen involved in dreadful attacks in southern Iraq’s Basra city two ago, detained.

BASRA / IraqiNews.com: The security forces in southern Iraq’s Basra province have managed on Thursday to arrest the gunmen charged with having been behind the dreadful attacks in Basra‘s Abdullah Bin-Ali Street that killed 43 people and injured 185 others about two weeks ago, according to a Basra security source. “The suspects have confessed during the preliminary investigations to having been behind the attacks,” he said, adding that the Basra police have reached the suspects, based on intelligence reports in the city. Basra, the capital of the province carrying the same name, is 590 km to the south of Baghdad. SKH (P)/SR 2