INA
Saturday, the Civil Defense Directorate announced that two people had been rescued and five bodies recovered from a two-truck collision in Basra.
A statement by the Civil Defense Directorate, received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), stated that “its teams rescued two drivers and their assistants, while they recovered five other bodies as a result of a traffic collision between a tank loaded with fuel and two trucks carrying large amounts of agricultural fertilizer in Al-Zubayr district, Basra Governorate.
” The Civil Defense rushed to rescue the injured and transferred them to Safwan General Hospital, while it recovered five bodies from the motorists and their assistants, in conjunction with the operations of extinguishing and cordoning off the fire and removing the danger of fire from the movement of the vehicles passing on the international road. before the drivers.