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A chemical rocket was found in Iraqi Halabja District in Sulaymaniyah province, the District Municipality announced on Wednesday. The chemical rocket was discovered in a military plane that had crashed in the district after it came under chemical weapon attack in 1988.
“Halabja’s Municipality teams detected, in the city’s center, a missile full of chemicals while removing the remains of a military plane that had crashed, in March 1988, after bombarding Halabja District with chemical weapons,” said head of the municipality Khodor Karim to Alsumarianews. “The team was working on turning the site, where the plane’s remains were discovered, into a park,” he clarified.
“A part of the missile has been damaged due to excavations,” Karim added. “We informed concerned parties and they are now in contact with specialized military teams to remove the missile,” Karim pointed out.
“One of the Iraqi military planes that bombarded the city, on March 16, 1988, had crashed north ofthe city,” said Vice-President of Chemical Bombardment Victims Association in the city of Halabja, Aras Abed, to Alsumarianews. “Political parties at the time and the current government of Kurdistan knew about the plane’s crash spot,” he uttered.
“It is not hard to guess a military plane’s missile contents,” Abed clarified. “The existence of such a missile makes us feel unsafe,” he concluded.
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