Kidnapped girl freed in Amara

MISSAN / IraqiNews.com: A kidnapped young girl resident of Mosul city was freed and her kidnappers arrested in the city of al-Amara on Saturday, a police source in Missan said. “Policemen liberated a young girl taken hostage and arrested her three kidnappers in Ali al-Gharbi district, (100 km) north of al-Amara,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The arrests took place after security forces of Ali al-Gharbi checkpoint suspected and searched a vehicle boarding the kidnappers and the girl from the city of Mosul and heading for Basra,” southern Iraq, the source added. Amara, the capital city of Missan province, lies 390 km south of Baghdad . AmR (P)/SR 1