BAGHDAD, May 5 — More than 1,000 Iraqis were rushed to hospital with respiratory ailments today due to a sandstorm, the seventh to hit the country in the past month, state media said. Residents of six of Iraq’s 18 provinces, including Baghdad and the vast western region of Al-Anbar, awoke once...
BAGHDAD, May 5 — More than 1,000 Iraqis were rushed to hospital with respiratory ailments today due to a sandstorm, the seventh to hit the country in the past month, state media said.
Authorities in Al-Anbar and Kirkuk provinces, north of the capital, urged people to stay indoors, said the official INA news agency. The central province of Salaheddin reported more than 300 cases, while the central province of Diwaniya and the province of Najaf, south of Baghdad, each recorded about 100 cases, the news agency added.
Experts have said these factors threaten to bring social and economic disaster in the war-scarred country.
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