Tehran: Iran hanged 10 drug traffickers, including seven who were executed in the southern province of Kerman, media reports say.
Seven convicted drug smugglers were hanged in prisons in the Kerman cities of Bam and Jiroft on Wednesday, a local newspaper reported.
Three others were hanged in a prison in the southern city of Shiraz, according to the judiciary website of the province of Fars. The website did not say when the three were executed.
All 10 were found guilty of possessing various amounts of heroin, opium, crack cocaine and morphine, reports said.
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