Moments of the Tigris River burning after oil pollution in 2014

Written By وداد السعودي on 2017/10/18

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><strong>Weather of Arabia</strong> - Perhaps few remember the incident during which unknown persons blew up oil pipelines in the city of Tikrit in Iraq near the banks of the Tigris River in 2014; This led to the leakage of flaming oil slicks into the Tigris River, which greatly polluted it.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> A huge cloud of black smoke obscured the Tikrit day and turned it into night, and a large amount of oil spread over a length of 20 kilometers on the Tigris River after the explosion.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> It is noteworthy that the smoke resulting from the burning of oil during that accident emitted to great heights in the atmosphere, to the extent that it appears from satellite images.</p>

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

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