BAGHDAD, Oct. 10 (Xinhuanet) -- Iraqi police patrols, in cooperation with the national guards, have arrested 42 illegal Iranian and Afghan infiltrators, local newspaper Baghdad reported Sunday.

   The border police patrols in the Wasit governorate arrested 13 Afghan infiltrators that had entered into the country through the borders in Shihabi region, a police source was quoted as saying.

   He added that the infiltrators entered Iraq with the pretext of visiting the holly sites in the governorates of Karbalaa and Najaf.

   The police patrols also arrested 18 Iranian infiltrators, who had entered the country through the borders of Mendily.

   In the governorate of Babil, the Iraqi national guards also arrested 10 Afghan infiltrators at a checkpoint at Al Iskandariyah town, 50 km south of Baghdad, who admitted that they had entered into the country illegally with the help of some smugglers.

   Meanwhile, the police in Baghdad arrested an Iranian named Mohamed Sabir in the southern part of Basmayah, who admitted that he had entered into Iraq to carry out sabotage activities.  Enditem