Four convicted of bomb attack executed in Kurdistan

 By Abdul Hamid Zibari


Arbil, 30 May 2007 (Voices of Iraq)Four persons convicted of implementing a bomb attack were executed on Tuesday in the city of Arbil, a source in the Kurdistan region’s interior ministry said.

“The execution took place this morning in the Arbil jail with the attendance of representatives from ministries of justice, interior, health and endowment, in addition to the general prosecution in the Arbil Criminal Court,” the source, who asked not to be named, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).

The four were convicted of planning for implementing an attack by a car bomb that targeted a police training center in June 2005 that killed 15 policemen.

“The bodies were sent to the forensic medicine department in Arbil and then handed over to their families,” he also said. IraqUpdates

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