The Babylon Police Command announced today, Monday, the arrest of a man and a woman who were found in their possession an amount of drugs estimated at about a kilogram, which was found in their car under the checkpoint of the martyr Colonel Salam Shannon, north of the city of Hilla.
Babylon Police Director of Information, Brigadier General Adel Al-Husseini, said, "The drugs were hidden inside the tire of the vehicle and under the driver's seat, indicating that the police referred the accused to the competent authority."
In a related development, a thirty-eight-year-old woman hanged herself inside her home in the Musayyib district, north of Hilla, on Monday.
Babylon Police Information Director, Brigadier General Adel Al-Husseini, said, “A report reached the police that a woman had hanged herself inside her home in Al-Musayyab district, north of Hilla, without knowing the reasons.”
He added that the police transferred the body to the forensic medicine office and that an investigation was opened into the incident to determine the causes of the death.”
Source: National Iraqi News Agency