Friday, September 27, 2024

Baghdad

Wanted man arrested, cache seized in Mosul

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: Police forces captured a wanted man whose confessions led to seizing a weapons cache in western Mosul city on Sunday, a local police source in Ninewa said. “The cache was seized upon confessions by a wanted man arrested earlier on Sunday (May 5) at a checkpoint in New Mosul area in the western part of the city,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The cache contained three mortar shells of 60 mm. caliber and an RPG shell,” he added, not giving further details. Mosul, the capital city of the volatile province of Ninewa, lies 405 km north of Baghdad. AmR (P) 3