40 million dinars stolen in attack on officer’s house in Kut city

WASSIT / IraqiNews.com: An amount, estimated at 40 million Iraqi dinars, have been stolen in an attack on the house of a traffic police officer in the city of Kut, the center of southern Iraq’s Wassit Province on Wednesday, a Wassit Police source reported.   “Three unknown gunmen have carried out an armed attack on the house of a Wassit Traffic Police officer, with a lt-Brigadier rank on Wednesday morning, stealing 40 million dinars,” the police source told IraqiNews.com news agency.   He said the police had cordoned the area of the house and began investigation and search for the armed attackers, who had escaped to an unknown destination.   Kut, the center of Wassit Province , is 180 km to the southeast of Baghdad .   SKH (ST)