PM:04:06:18/05/2022
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SULAIMANI — Iraqi director-general of the Radiation
Protection Directorate said on Wednesday (May 18) that Baghdad experienced the
highest daily environmental pollution on Monday as a fresh wave of dust storm
hit the country.
Sabah Hassan Husseini told Shia News Association that
environmental pollution peaked at around 9:00 a.m. in the Iraqi capital.
On Monday, hundreds of people were hospitalized with
breathing difficulties throughout Iraq as a fresh dust storm hit the country.
Husseini said that the causes of the dust storm, which had
come from outside Iraq, were drought and desertification and that the situation
could be solved by planting trees and increasing green lands.
Experts have estimated that the amount of dust brought to
Baghdad on Monday was more than 60 tons.
(NRT Digital Media)