豪雨の影響で３人感電死　イラク中部

【ヒッラ（イラク）ＡＦＰ＝時事】イラク当局は１３日、集中豪雨が発生した中部バービル県で少なくとも３人が感電死したと発表した。（写真は冠水した広場で水を掃き出す市の職員）
　県都ヒッラにある法医学研究所によると、３人の年齢は１６歳、２２歳、３０歳で、うち１人が女性だった。事故は別々の場所で発生したという。
　３人とも電力が一定せず自宅の家電製品が壊れることを心配し、１２日の暴風雨の最中に外に出て主電源を切ろうとして感電した。イラクでは戦争の影響で送電網が老朽化している。
　暴風雨はバービルのほか、広範囲を襲った。
　ムハンマド・スダニ首相は１３日、公務員に一部例外を除き自宅に待機するよう命じた。
　クルディスタン地域のカバット村では、店舗などに泥水が浸水した。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2023/04/14-18:34）

At least three people have been electrocuted in central Iraq after torrential rain played havoc with the war-ravaged country's dilapidated power grid, a medical official said Thursday.
The three deaths happened in separate incidents in the central province of Babil, said Dr Ahmed Sabbah, director of the Institute of Forensic Medicine in the provincial capital Hilla.
The dead were aged 16, 22 and 30 and one of them was a woman, Sabbah told AFP.
They had all gone outside to switch off the main supply to their homes during Wednesday's storm, for fear that power fluctuations would damage their household electrical appliances.
The storm brought disruption to large parts of Iraq, not just Babil province, south of Baghdad.
Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani ordered civil servants to stay home nationwide on Thursday, except for key staff and security personnel.
In the northern Kurdistan region, the rains sent a river of mud pouring through the village of Khabat, with several shops suffering water damage, an AFP photographer reported.