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Snowstorm hits Iraq's Kurdistan region
6.1.2008
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January 6, 2008
Sulaimaniyah, Kurdistan Region 'Iraq', -- For
the first time this winter, a snowstorm struck
Iraq's Kurdistan provinces of Erbil and Sulaimaniyah
on Saturday morning, according to eyewitnesses.
"Snow covered large areas of Erbil province,
including northern Shaqlawa, Souran and Juman, as
well as Salah al-Din,www.ekurd.net
in addition to
Sulaimaniyah city for the first time this year,"
local eyewitnesses said.
Other eyewitnesses from Duhuk's Zakho city spoke of
snow covering the mountainous areas of their
province, 460 km north of Baghdad.
Sulaimaniyah Airport
flights stop due to bad weather |
Snow in Sulaimaniyah city. ekurd.net, archive photo |
Flights were cancelled
into Sulaimaniyah International Airport several
times over the past couple of days due to bad
weather conditions,www.ekurd.net
the airport chief said
on Saturday.
"The airport's administration denied landing to two
airplanes coming from Istanbul and Dubai and
instructed the airplanes in the airport not to take
off due to the bad weather conditions," Kamran Ahmed
Soliman said.
Rainfall and snowfall weather, which resulted in
closing roads and paralyzing the traffic movement.
In Penjwin the highway of Sulaimaniyah-Penjwin has
been closed on Sunday due to the snowfall, which
reached a thickness of 35cm.
While in Sulaimaniyah, the rainfall reached an
amount of 24mm during the past 24 hours and the snow
reached a thickness of 4cm.
Meteorology reports stated that this wave is going
to be continued till January 8th.
Erbil, the capital of Iraq's Kurdistan region, lies
349 km northeast of the Iraqi capital, while
Sulaimaniyah, Kurdistan's cultural capital, lies 364
km northeast of Iraqi Baghdad.
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