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Motorbike bomb defused in Thi-Qar

January 14, 2009 - 04:20:43


THI-QAR / Aswat al-Iraq: Police forces on Wednesday defused a motorbike rigged with explosives in the southeast of Nassiriya city, without causing any casualties or damage.

“A motorbike rigged with over 2 kg of TNT explosives was defused in al-Fadliya district (15 km southeast of Nassiriya),” an official spokesperson for Thi-Qar police, Col. Sadeq al-Mashrafawi, told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The motorbike was found in light of intelligence tips from local residents, Mashrafawi noted.

Nassiriya, the capital city of Thi-Qar province, lies 380 km south of Baghdad.

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