NAJAF (AFP): Around 1,500 people were sent to hospitals with respiratory problems on Monday as a sandstorm hit central and southern Iraq, health officials said.
Hospitals in Muthanna province in southern Iraq received at least “700 cases of suffocation,” local health official Mazen Al-Egeili told AFP. More than 250 people were hospitalized in the central Najaf province, and hundreds more in the provinces of Diwaniyah and Dhi Qar, other health officials reported.
