Baghdad (ANTARA News/AFP) - Iraqi authorities have arrested seven alleged members of an Al-Qaeda cell suspected of raping a seven-year-old girl and involved in many murders, a Baghdad security spokesman said on Thursday.

"Our forces have arrested seven members of an Al-Qaeda cell who confessed to kidnapping a seven-year-old girl in Yarmouk (western Baghdad neighbourhood) because her father, a teacher, had refused to pay ransom for her," Qassim Atta said. (*)

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