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Drug dealer killed, Captagon seized in Iraq

Baghdad, Mar 2 (UNI) Iraqi security forces killed a drug dealer and wounded another in a clash in southern Iraq, the Interior Ministry said on Saturday.
Muqdad Miri, the ministry's spokesman, said in a statement that the anti-narcotics forces clashed with drug dealers during a raid on their safe house in Iraq's southern province of al-Qadisiyah, killing one of them and wounding another. A security member was also injured during the clash.
Meanwhile, the anti-narcotics forces also seized 65 kg of narcotic Captagon pills in Iraq's western province of Anbar, according to the statement.
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