Iraq frees 4 Syrian girls held in a medical centre 

Iraqi security authorities have freed four Syrian girls who had been detained in a medical centre in the centre of Nasiriyah, in the Dhi Qar Governorate.

Iraqi media sites quoted local security sources as saying that “a security force affiliated with the National Security Service raided, at dawn today, the Sajida Al-Jubouri Dental Centre in the centre of Nasiriyah.”

“The force freed Syrian girls detained in the centre and transferred them to a special detention centre in order to complete the investigation procedures with them.”

It is unclear who was holding the girls in the medical facility.

The National Security Forces in Iraq have successfully tracked down a gang that kidnapped a girl from the Mahmudiyah district, south of the capital Baghdad, and freed the kidnapped girl.

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