Iran Hangs 70 for Drug Smuggling
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TEHRAN — Seventy drug smugglers were hanged in Tehran and 25 other Iranian cities Tuesday, an official report said. It was the largest number of traffickers executed in a single day of a ferocious anti-narcotics crackdown.
Sixty-seven men were hanged in public at dawn in a blinding snowstorm and three women were executed inside Iranian prisons, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.
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