Motorbike bomb defused in Thi-Qar

THI-QAR / IraqiNews.com: Police forces on Wednesday defused a motorbike rigged with explosives in the southeast of Nassiriya city, without causing any casualties or damage. “A motorbike rigged with over 2 kg of TNT explosives was defused in al-Fadliya district (15 km southeast of Nassiriya),” an official spokesperson for Thi-Qar police, Col. Sadeq al-Mashrafawi, told IraqiNews.com news agency. The motorbike was found in light of intelligence tips from local residents, Mashrafawi noted. Nassiriya, the capital city of Thi-Qar province, lies 380 km south of Baghdad. SS (P)/SR 1