By order of the Minister of Interior, Abdul Amir Al-Shammari, the Civil Defense Directorate mobilized its human efforts and harnessed its mechanisms to support municipal departments by drawing and siphoning rain water from the main streets and residential neighborhoods, after the rains increased in all governorates of Iraq, under the supervision of its Director General, Major General Kadhim Salman Bohan.
For his part, the Mayor of Baghdad, Ammar Musa Kadhim, directed today, Friday, to operate stations and emergency lines to drain rainwater.
A statement by the Municipality of Baghdad said: “Mayor of Baghdad followed up on the field efforts to drain siphoning rainwater in Al-Baladiyat Street within Al-Ghadeer municipality sector, and directed that more efforts be made and to operate emergency stations and lines to drain rainwater.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency