AFP
Apr 21, 2009
Four held over deadly Baghdad jewel heist
AFP
Apr 21, 2009
BAGHDAD, April 21, 2009 (AFP) - Security forces in Iraq have arrested four suspects after a deadly weekend raid on a jewellery shop in the capital in which two people were shot, the Iraqi military said on Tuesday 21 April.
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"Security forces have arrested four of those behind the killing of two jewellery shop owners" in the west of the city, Major General Qassim Atta, the Baghdad security spokesman, told the Al-Iraqiya television channel.
The two were killed and three other civilians were wounded during the armed robbery on the store, an interior ministry official said on Sunday.
Three vehicles have also been seized and more people are being sought in connection with the robbery, Atta said.
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