Six people, including soldiers, were killed during a clan dispute over ownership of agricultural land in Maysan Province in southern Iraq, a security source in Al-Amara, the capital of Maysan Province (305km south of Baghdad), said yesterday. .
He added that “the soldier was on leave when there was a conflict that flared up over disputes over the ownership of agricultural land and lasted for several hours.”
Maysan, located in Shia-dominated southern Iraq, is facing security tensions over clan strife, settling political scores and drug smuggling in a border province with Iran.
In recent years, drug trafficking and abuse has increased in Iraq, especially in the south and center of the country, which have become a major smuggling and trade route, especially for crystals.
And the Drug Enforcement Administration of the Ministry of the Interior announced earlier this year that “the governorates of Basra and Maysan rank first in smuggling and abuse among the southern provinces.”
