QAYYARAH, Iraq, Oct 22, (APP/AFP) – Toxic fumes released when jihadists torched a sulphur plant near Mosul earlier this week have killed two Iraqi civilians and forced US troops at a nearby base to wear masks. “Daesh blew up the sulphur plant two days ago and that has led to the deaths of two people among the civilians in nearby villages,” Iraqi General Qusay Hamid Kadhem told AFP, using an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group (IS). The senior officer of the interior ministry’s elite rapid response force said “many others were injured as a result of the toxic smoke.”
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Sulphur cloud from IS-torched Iraq plant kills two civilians: general
