An officer and four policemen were injured by a hand grenade thrown by a drug dealer in Hilla

Hilla, An officer with the rank of brigadier general and four policemen were injured while arresting a drug dealer in central Hilla, the center of Babylon Governorate.

A Babylon police source said: ‘A man wanted on charges of drug trafficking threw a hand grenade at a police force while they were raiding his house to arrest him, in the Mohandiseen neighborhood in central Hilla.’

He added: “The accident resulted in the injury of a brigadier general and four policemen.”

He continued: ‘The police arrested the accused and transferred the wounded to Al-Hilla Surgical Hospital.’

Source: National Iraqi News Agency