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(ANSA) - BEIRUT, MAY 05 - More than a thousand people have been hospitalized in Iraq in the last hours due to respiratory problems due to a sandstorm that has also hit regions of eastern and north-eastern Syria.
Iraqi and Syrian media reports.
The Iraqi government agency Nina cites hospital sources as saying that the majority of hospitalizations were recorded in the western Iraqi regions and in the capital Baghdad.
Images on social networks and local TVs show thick orange clouds obscuring the sky, while eyewitnesses claim that the fine sand has penetrated the cars and homes of the Iraqi regions of Anbar and Salaheddin, and the Syrian ones of Dayr az Zor and Hasake.
Also hit the Iraqi capital Baghdad, the oil city of Kirkuk, north of Baghdad,
Iraqi media say this is the fifth sandstorm since April and that the frequency of these events has increased over the past few years.
Iraq is considered one of the five countries in the world most vulnerable to climate change and desertification, experts say.
Adaprile, the international airports of Baghdad and Najaf were forced to suspend flights due to storms and sand.
The Iraqi environment ministry said at the time that by 2050 Iraq will be hit by dust and sand for about 300 days a year.
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