Two workers were killed in an ammonia leak at a fertilizer plant in southern Iraq on September 13. Emergency services rescued ten people, recovered two bodies, and treated approximately fifty others injured at the Southern Fertilizer Company in Khor ez Zubair (Basra province).
In Israel, the head of the “Caucasian mafia” was killed in Caesarea on July 28. The incident has raised concerns about the expanding influence of criminal networks originating from the former Soviet Union in the Middle East.
On July 28, an explosion occurred at the Aeon Mall shopping center in Kashima village, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, causing part of the outer wall to collapse and suspecting a gas leak as the cause.
