“Medical facilities in Baghdad and in a number of Iraqi provinces have registered more than 2,250 calls due to suffocation of varying severity,” the Shafaq portal quoted the agency as saying.

It is specified that all the victims received assistance, and most of them were able to leave medical institutions soon.

On the evening of June 25, a sandstorm swept most of the regions of the republic.

On June 3, it was reported that a sandstorm hit the Syrian Aleppo.

The sky and the streets of the city were covered with sand, which is why they turned orange.