13 wanted men, suspects detained in Basra

BASRA / IraqiNews.com: A total of 13 wanted men and suspected gunmen have been arrested in separate areas  in Basra, a police source said on Tuesday. “Police forces arrested three wanted men and 10 suspected gunmen, one of them is carrying a Syrian nationality who entered Iraq as a truck driver,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The forces seized also a number of unlicensed vehicles,” he added. Basra is 590 km south of Baghdad. SH (P)/SR 1