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#BREAKING Eight killed in Iraqi Kurdistan floods: official

#UPDATE "The floods began at 4:00 am, and have left eight dead including women and children" a provincial governor told AFP

VIDEO: 🇮🇶 Floodwaters on the river Zab Asfal in Altun Kubri, some 50 kilometres south of Arbil in northern Iraq, after torrential rains left eight dead in the region on Friday

#UPDATE Eleven people including two foreigners died on Friday in flash floods which swept through northern Iraq after torrential rains in Arbil, capital of the autonomous Kurdistan region, an official said u.afp.com/wTNC