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28 persons busted in Samarra

SALAH Al-DIN / IraqiNews.com: Police forces arrested on Wednesday 28 persons in Samarra after the killing of a village police chief by gunmen, a police source said. Last night (Sept. 28), unknown gunmen Killed Chief of al-Jalam police, Major Saeed Ali Hussein, in front of his family. “The emergency police waged a crackdown operation in the region on Wednesday afternoon (Sept. 29), where they arrested 28 persons, including five wanted men,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. Samarra, the largest city in the province of Salah al-Din, lies 120 km north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. SH (P) 1