ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Many buildings were flooded in Kirkuk province on Thursday, with water entering a school during exams. A new wave of rainfall has hit Iraq and the Kurdistan Region in recent days. It is expected to last until Saturday, according to metrology authorities. Houses were flooded and a primary school was submerged in the Kurdish neighborhood of Shoraw in Kirkuk while the students were doing exams, according to a Rudaw reporter on the ground. People struggled to remove the flood water from their houses. No casualties were reported in the flash flood. “This is the third time this has happened to us during this winter. A team would come and try to empty a couple of sewers and then leave. There is no solution,” one of the affected individuals told Rudaw’s Hardi Mohammed. Rising water levels and flash floods during the rainy seasons of fall and winter have become a common occurrence in the Kurdistan Region and Iraq in recent years, at times reaching disastrous levels and resulting in casualties and great damage. A woman was killed in Erbil province’s Kore subdistrict on Wednesday after flooding caused a wall to fall on her. Three other people were injured in the incident.
