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Baghdad, Aug. 18 (Petra) — More than 40 people were injured on
Tuesday after a major explosion at an oil products depot in
Sulaymaniyah province in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, local authorities
said.
According to the official Iraqi News Agency, the Sulaymaniyah Civil
Defense Directorate said a fire broke out following an explosion at
one of the province’s oil products storage depots.
Civil defense teams were dispatched to the site and managed to
contain and extinguish the blaze using available equipment and
vehicles, the directorate said.
“The final toll from the incident was more than 40 injuries among
firefighting personnel, with one person in critical condition,” it
said, adding that a committee had been formed to investigate the
circumstances of the incident, determine the cause of the fire, and
assess the resulting damage.
//Petra// AF
