Mosul The Civil Defense teams in Nineveh Governorate announced that they had controlled a major fire that engulfed the Mosul forests.
Civil Defense Captain Omar Jamal told the National Iraqi News Agency (NINA) that “the civil defense teams were able to put out the fire, which caused huge losses to trees inside the Mosul forests.”
He added, “the security forces completely surrounded the forests and arrested a timber contractor when he was burning trees and took him to the Nineveh Police Headquarters for investigation and submission to the judiciary.”
Source: National Iraqi News Agency