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Iraq sentences 5 drug dealers to death

Baghdad, Feb 28 (UNI) An Iraqi court on Wednesday handed down death sentences to five drug dealers, including three foreigners.
"The Central Criminal Court issued a verdict to execute five drug dealers who were convicted of trafficking the narcotic Captagon pills," a statement by the media office of the Supreme Judicial Council said, without specifying the nationalities of the three foreigners.
The statement added that the convicts were transporting narcotic drugs from the central province of Najaf to the southern province of Muthanna before smuggling them to neighboring countries.
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