The Karbala Crime Prevention Detachments arrested a gang that was stealing the contents of the Wadi Al-Salam cemetery.

A police statement stated that after appeals were received by citizens that the contents of their graves had been stolen, the police chief of the Holy Karbala Governorate, Major General Ahmed Ali Zwaini, directed the formation of a work team headed by the Director of the Crime Control Department and a group of officers and associates to arrest the thieves and bring them to justice, and after collecting information, investigating and setting up an ambush, two people were arrested red-handed while attempting to rob a tomb in Wadi Al-Salam cemetery, and after writing down their statements, they explicitly admitted that they had stolen alabaster, audio speakers, water tanks, doors and windows.

Source: National Iraqi News Agency