BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A fire broke out near the Al-Mashraq sulfur plant south of Mosul on Wednesday, despite an announcement by the authorities that the flames would be extinguished, an Iraqi official warned.
MP Ahmad al-Jubouri told a news conference on Thursday in the parliament building that the danger still exists because the smoke reached other provinces and called on the government to use the international community to contain this danger.
Deputy Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, the full responsibility in the event of a humanitarian disaster causing environmental risk to humans and crops.
The warning came hours after Ninawa operations chief Major General Noman al-Zobaie announced the control of the fire, adding that "the engineering teams continue to process any flow of toxic gases in the region."
The Civil Defense Director Colonel Hossam Khalil said earlier that one of the civil defense employees died, and wounded five others, as well as turn a wheel of fire extinguishing fire south of Mosul.
Civil Defense in Nineveh: |
On Wednesday night, a fire came out of control in agricultural land near the General Company for Sulfur, in the Mashraq area, and reached the site of sulfur residues, causing the emission of toxic fumes heavily.
The director of civil defense said that the people were able to remove the fire from the large waste, but it reached the sulfur wells, which are still burning and caused suffocation.
From the Mashreq sulphate plant shortly before. Where the process of filling the sources of fumes, the third and final stage of the control of these fires |
The arrival of the smell of sulfur to some villages of Qayyarah south of Mosul #, which means the beginning of a serious environmental disaster .. |
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