Basra, The Basra Governorate Police Command announced, today, Saturday, that members of an armed robbery gang were overthrown, 24 hours after they committed the crime.
The leadership said in a statement: After receiving news that a house of a female citizen in the Qibla area had been subjected to an armed robbery, a working team was immediately formed from the Crime Prevention Department, and after research, investigation and information gathering by the work team, the work efforts, in coordination with Basra Intelligence, resulted in the overthrow of the perpetrators (two accused), including a woman.
The leadership indicated that the statements of the two defendants were recorded, and they confessed to having committed the crime of armed robbery in association with a fugitive suspect. Efforts are still continuing to arrest him.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency