Monday, February 29, 2016

US evacuates fearing Mosul dam catastrophe

The US embassy in Iraq has released evacuation recommendations it said could help save up to 1.5 million lives at risk from a catastrophic failure of the Mosul Dam.

Concern has grown in recent months over a possible collapse of Iraq's largest dam, which would unleash a wave that would devastate second city Mosul and flood much of the capital Baghdad.

The dam in northern Iraq was built on an unstable foundation that continuously erodes, and a lapse in required maintenance after the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group briefly seized it in 2014 weakened the already flawed structure. (READ MORE)