Police defuse bomb north of Nassiriya

Thi-Qar THI-QAR / IraqiNews.com: Anti-bomb squads on Monday managed to defuse a bomb in the north of Nassiriya city, the media director of the Thi-Qar police said. “Anti-bomb experts managed to defuse a bomb in al-Refaaei district in the north of Nassiriya,” Colonel Adnan al-Meshrefawi told IraqiNews.com. “The bomb was targeting a house of a citizen,” he added. “The police also waged a crackdown operation in al-Hawasem regions in the south of Nassiriya and seized an amount of ammunition,” he also said. Thi-Qar, 380 km south of Baghdad, has an area of 12,900 square kilometers (4,980.7 sq mi). In 2003 the estimated population of the governorate was 1,454,200 people. Thi-Qar was the second Iraqi province where security responsibilities were transferred from the Multi-National Force (MNF) to the Iraqis. The province’s capital is the city of al-Nassiriya. It also includes the ancient Sumerian ruins of Ur, Eridu, Lagash and Ngirsu. Before 1976 the province was known as al-Muntafiq. SH (P)/SR   1