27 arrested on criminal, terror charges in Karbala

KARBALA / IraqiNews.com: Twenty-seven persons on Sunday were arrested during a wide-scale security operation that covered different parts of Karbala province, according to an official source. “Those arrested are held on terror, murder, theft and kidnap offences, and will be brought to court,” an official spokesperson for Karbala’s operations command, Maj. Alaa Abbas, told IraqiNews.com news agency. The Shiite city of Karbala lies 110 km southwest of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. SS (P) 1