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Six drug traffickers hanged in Iran
Jul 2, 2009, 13:48 GMT
Tehran - Six convicted drug traffickers were hanged Thursday in Iran, a judiciary official told the Fars news agency.
The six were hanged in a prison in Qom, 135 kilometres south of Tehran, Fars reported.
Murder, rape, armed robbery and drug trafficking of quantities in excess of 5 kilograms are among the crimes punishable by death in Iran.
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