Baghdad police arrest gang specialized in abducting Iraqi children
An Iraqi police force has seized a criminal gang specialized in kidnapping children in Baghdad.
A police source, refusing to be named, said the gang was based in the neighborhood of Karada in Baghdad.
“We first received information of the abduction of a child in Baghdad. Our work to free the child led us to the gang,” the source said.
The source did not say how many children were abducted by the gang and for what reasons.
Kidnapping, which swept Iraq in the aftermath of the 2003-U.S. invasion, had terrorized the country.
Almost anybody was liable to be kidnapped and many parents stopped sending the children to school.
But the rate of abductions plummeted in the past two years as Iraqi forces managed to establish a semblance of control and security.
The source did not sat how extensive the child-abducting network had been, but added that the police arrested several people with documents and quantities of weapons.
“The abducted child was freed,” he said.
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