Poisoning — Iraq
[ProMEDmail regrets the delay in posting, but it just came to our attention. – Mod.DK]
An acrid smell still hangs in the air in parts of Taza, and its narrow streets are unusually quiet. On [Tue 8 Mar 2016], Islamic State militants fired more than 40 rockets carrying chemical warheads at this northern Iraqi town of mud-wall compounds and dusty date palms, according to district head Hussein Adil, killing a young child and wounding over 800 civilians. After the attack, which may have been
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