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ELEVEN PEOPLE INCLUDING nine schoolteachers died in a head-on road crash south of Baghdad as they returned from a Ramadan meal, Iraqi authorities said, blaming speed.
The accident happened in Babylon province around midnight as the group was returning in a minibus from the Shiite holy city of Karbala, a police source said.
Their vehicle collided with a 4×4 travelling in the opposite direction “due to high speed and the driver of the second vehicle’s lack of attention”, a statement from road traffic authorities said, adding two people were injured.
The police source said the vehicles caught fire.
Conflict, neglect and endemic corruption have left oil-rich Iraq’s infrastructure, including roads and bridges, in disrepair.
Many roads are full of potholes and are plunged into total darkness at night.
“The number of traffic accidents doesn’t stop rising. It’s as if we were at war,” said senior road traffic official Tarek Ismail late last month, quoted by state news agency INA.
He blamed a “lack of respect for speed limits”, the use of mobile phones and driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol.
Last year, almost 1,000 people died in road accidents in Iraq, a country of around 41 million people, according to a traffic authority official.
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Why is the journal so quiet about Trump at the moment??
It wouldn’t be to do with that video from Georgia that’s caused this unprecedented silence, would it?
@Giddy: expand please
@Giddy: who is Trump?
@Margaret Deacon: https://youtu.be/LJ0xDWhWUxk
@John Mulligan: Exactly what CNN have been doing lately, did you see the veritas tapes???? https://youtu.be/ZqtZIdwhnec
haha, the media literally have been caught trying to keep all evidence of fraud from the public. The sheep are so easily led by the echo chamber they call news
@Giddy: because it’s a non story
@Random_paddy: Non story = Democrat media blackout.
You’ve been told by CNN its a non story and like a good little sheep you follow…
Did you not watch the links i posted, there’s clear evidence of fraud.
Im just making a point that the Journal have been very silent on this video which is clearly very incriminating. Open your eyes.
@Margaret Deacon: https://youtu.be/uW-z287KQzg
@Giddy: media outlets biased is not a shocker really though is it?
CNN favours the dems Fox favours the republicans. They don’t have neutral news anywhere especially in the states. That isn’t evidence of a rigged election though is it.
Was there isolated incidents of fraud for the Democrats? Most likely. Was there incidents of vote fraud in favour or Republicans? Just as likely.
No different than our own elections.
But neither enough to affect the election in any meaningful way.
He lost the election dude. Some things you are better off just letting go, instead of tormenting yourself over these conspiracies.
@john doe: I waited 2 days for a Trump article to post about this, Couldn’t sleep the whole time, tormented isn’t the word haha
But seriously did you watch the video?
@Giddy: yes I watched it. It may be fraud, it may be something else altogether. It’s not conclusive evidence of anything. What makes you think based on that video that if they are sneaking in ballots that they are all for Biden?
Couldn’t that just be where they had been storing some postal votes or votes from a remote polling station.
A video of people moving suitcases around hardly means a rigged election does it?
But as I said above, there is probably some level of fraud in every election. In this case lots of people have looked at it and decided that if there was some fraud it wasn’t enough to alter the result.
@john doe:You’re probably right, they’ve found the smoking gun, now find the ballets…
2 more drug dealers caught well done gardai
Were do garda get the prices from ? Anyone know ?
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