ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A member of Iraqi parliament announced the deaths of five women in a family of displaced people living in Baqubah city, Diyala province after their house collapsed due to heavy rain on Wednesday.
Raad Dahlaki, the MP representing Diyala province, said these women "have been the victims of the government's continual marginalization of the displaced after their house - made of clay bricks - collapsed due to heavy rain.”
“This incident is clear evidence of the size of the humanitarian issue of displaced people, which the previous government cast to the side,” he added.
Heavy rains hit the northern provinces of Iraq, including the Kurdistan Region, Tuesday night and into Wednesday causing major flooding.
Dahlaki said that they will follow the case, as the family is survived by two girls, Banin and Hanin.
He stated that this incident is a “humiliation for all governments.”
The rains have also caused distress for many in Duhok.
Yousef Mousa, Rudaw’s reporter in Zakho, says that a 20-year-old man, Salim Abdullah was with his family by the Khabur River in Zakho, Duhok when he fell in. His body is yet to be recovered, and he is assumed dead.
A father and son were stuck on a hill after being engulfed with the flood but they called the emergency teams who soon rescued them.
Bzhar Munib, the head of Zakho’s municipality told Rudaw, that “water has flooded a number of shops and houses in Zakho.”
He added that 124 ml of rain has fallen in the last 24 hours.
The flooding has also damaged cars and houses in Duhok city.
