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Firefighters hose down a burned vehicle at the site of a car bomb explosion in Basra, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, July 29, 2013. (AP Photo/ Nabil al-Jurani)
by Fares Al-Sharifi | Aug 18, 2013 | Middle East
Basra, Asharq Al-Awsat—Four people were injured and a ship was damaged in an explosion in the port of Umm Qasr in the southwest of Basra governorate, Iraq, on Saturday. The port, which is one of the largest commercial ports in Iraq, was put under complete lockdown,...
