A complete power outage occurred in all provinces of Iraq. This was reported in a statement published on Wednesday evening by the country's Ministry of Electricity, UNN reports with reference to Xinhua.
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The cause of the outage is not yet clear. Officials said crews are working to restore power plants and transmission lines.
The outages have already affected the semi-autonomous Kurdish region after operations at a key gas field were suspended due to security concerns. Iraq's oil ministry also said on Tuesday that it had halted production at a major field near Basra, citing a shortage of tankers in the Persian Gulf amid the conflict.
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