Halabch victim back home searching for family

ARBIL / IraqiNews.com: A young Kurdish man, whose family died in 1988 when he was an infant during the chemical attacks on Halbcha, came back home from Iran looking for his consanguinity family. “The young man was 3-4 months old when the attacks occurred,” Chanar Saad Abdullah, the Kurdistan regional minister for martyrs’ affairs, said in a press conference in Arbil city on Sunday. She said that the victim was adopted by an Iranian woman. “So far, around 25 children have been reported missing since the bombing of Halabcha,” she said. Minister Abdullah stressed that the victim will have a DNA test to find his genetic design. When Iraq was under the former regime of Saddam Hussein, Halabcha city came under chemical weapons attacks that left around 5,000 Kurds dead and 10,000 more wounded according to Kurdish statistics. MH (P)/SR     1