URGENT: Three Iraqis die due to heavy breathing, caused by sand storm over past 24 hours.

  SALAHADDIN / IraqiNews.com: Three Iraqi citizens have died and over 250 others were admitted to hospitals, due to heavy breathing caused by a strong sand story that hit Salahaddin Province over the past 24 hours, according to medical sources on Wednesday.   “Two persons have died last (Tuesday) night due to heavy breathing, whilst 130 other cases were treated, all suffering from heavy breathing, caused by a strong sand storm that hit Salahaddin’s Samarra city over the past 24 hours,” a Samarra medical source told IraqiNews.com news agency.   In another incident, a medical source in Tikrit Teaching Hospital said that an old woman has died due to heavy breathing, whilst over 50 people were admitted to the hospital, along with dozens of similar cases, recorded in the hospitals of Salahaddin’s Shrigat, Balad, Tuz and Beiji towns.   The Iraqi provinces of Baghdad , Karbala , Kirkuk , Mosul and Arbil had witnessed heavy sand storms, that caused cases of major hard breathing cases, whilst the Kurdish city of Arbil witnessed heavy rainfalls that failed to minimize the sand storm that hit the city as well.   The Iraqi authorities had announced on Tuesday that the country fell under law climate conditions,   coming from Turkey and the Arab Peninsula , causing   dust   storms and clouds in different Iraqi areas.   Tikrit, the center of Salahaddin Province , is 175 km to the north of Baghdad .   SKH (RT)                532