After vigorous follow-up by the President of Basrah  University, Dr. Saad Shaheen Hammadi, and the Follow-up Department, the security forces arrested the criminal who stabbed the student in the College of Education for Girls. He mentioned a brief statement by the university president, in which he emphasized the attack on the campus attacker and the student Zainab Karim in a record period, which indicates the university's keenness and concern for the safety of its students and cadres. It is mentioned that the criminal directed simple superficial stab wounds to the student Zainab Karim from the College of Education for Girls, and she gained full recovery, as she was reassured and visited by a high-ranking delegation from the University of Basra Council

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