[1] One person has died and 5,000 people have been admitted to hospital.
[3][4] Orange skies and reduced visibility has been increasingly common in the country.
[5] Iraq's meteorological office says that the weather phenomenon is expected to become increasingly common "due to drought, desertification and declining rainfall".
[6] 23 May 2022, another sandstorm affected parts of Iraq, Syria and Iran.
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