AFP
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News from the NOS•currently, 01:10
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Support staff in Iraq search for landslide survivors at a Shia shrine. At least four bodies have been recovered from the rubble. Far more men and women were being buried. 6 men and women, like three youngsters, have been rescued and rescuers had been equipped to offer oxygen, food stuff and drink to an unspecified quantity of people below the rubble.
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The landslide transpired at the Qattarat al-Imam Ali shrine near the Shiite holy site of Kerbala in central Iraq. It seems that a hill up coming to the sanctuary was saturated with water, on which the floor started to shift. As a consequence, the shrine’s ceiling collapsed and fell on the people.
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Major excavators have been despatched to the shrine from close by Baghdad to aid with the rescue procedure. Nevertheless, it is nonetheless unclear to what extent these can be used. “A modest blunder can guide to further more collapse,” a spokesperson on the location informed intercontinental media.
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Iraqi President Saleh known as the rescuers heroic and urged them to do anything possible to get the victims out from below the collapsed shrine.
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The Qattarat al-Imam Ali shrine is a supply of water. The Shiites believe that Imam Ali, the Prophet Muhammad’s son-in-regulation, stopped his army there in 657 to drink.
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