3 suspects arrested in Huweija

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: Security men in Kirkuk captured three suspects in a search raid in the village of Kubieh, southwest of the province, on Sunday, according to a senior security official. “Al-Huweija district police forces arrested on Sunday three suspects in a raid on a house inside Kubieh village in al-Huweija, (65 km) southwest of Kirkuk,” Brig. Sarhad Qader, the Kirkuk Districts’ Police Department chief, told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The raid on the village was conducted based on intelligence tip-offs on the presence of suspects there,” Qader said, adding one of the detainees is not a local resident of the province. Kirkuk lies 250 km northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. AmR (P) 1