Gang of kidnappers arrested, body found in Mosul

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: An Iraqi army force arrested a gang of kidnappers in eastern Mosul while policemen found a body that showed signs of having been shot north of the city, an army source said on Friday. “A force from the army’s 6th Brigade arrested three gunmen forming a gang of kidnapping in al-Tahreer neighborhood, eastern Mosul,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The arrests were made as part of an operation on Thursday (Feb. 26) to free a nine-year-old child taken hostage inside a house in the city,” the source said. Meanwhile, another security source said the police on Friday found an unidentified body drifted by rainwater to an area between the predominantly Christian area of Talsaqaf and Seriksha compound in Talkeef district, (30 km) north of Mosul. “The body, of a 50-year-old man, showed signs of having been shot,” the source added. Mosul, the capital city of Ninewa province, lies 405 km north of Baghdad. AmR (P) 1