SANDSTRUCK A man crosses a main road during a sandstorm in Baghdad on Thursday, May 5, 2022.
SANDSTRUCK A man crosses a main road during a sandstorm in Baghdad on Thursday, May 5, 2022.

BAGHDAD: More than 1,000 Iraqis were rushed to the hospital with respiratory ailments on Thursday on account of a sandstorm, the seventh to hit the country in the past month, according to state media.

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