December-1- 2018

His Excellency Prime Minister Adil Abd Al-Mahdi directed Civil Crisis Cell, governors and State's Directorates to take the necessary immediate decisions and follow-up on the field to reduce the damage of the floods that hit a number of our provinces, especially Mosul, which caused to cut a number of bridges towards Tal Afar and Al-Silahiat and the destruction of Al-Zanazil village.

His Excellency confirmed in his continuous communications that the first priority is to protect the lives of citizens and then preserve public and private property.

The field teams confirmed that there was no lives loss and that the measures are continuing to reduce the material damage, especially in Hammam al-Alil's IDPs Camp NO 2, in the location 17 sectors were exposed to flooding, destroying 340 tents and citizens evacuated to safe places.

His Excellency assigned the Crisis Cell to estimate the damage and submit an urgent report in order to take decision and provide urgent assistance.

Media office of the prime minister
December-1- 2018