(26 Dec 2012)
1. Various of cars driving through water on roads flooded by heavy rain
2. Children walking across flooded street
3. Various of traffic on flooded streets
4. Baghdad resident Abu al-Hur using refrigerator shell as a raft and being pushed across through water by children, they wave
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abu al-Hur, Baghdad resident:
''The streets are filled with water. Cars are overflowing with it. Cars are difficult to drive in these conditions.''
6. Half-submerged car being driven
7. Men draining water from street
8. Various of partly submerged vehicles in underpass
9 SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abu Ibrahim, owner of one of the submerged cars in underpass:
''The heavy rain and lack of services the Municipality of Baghdad should provide to its citizens led to this catastrophe. No good sewers and no drainage caused such a bad situation. About five cars were submerged in this underpass.''
10. Wide of underpass filled with water
STORYLINE:
Many streets and roads in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, were flooded on Wednesday due to heavy rains the day before.
Cars drove, half-submerged, through the deep water in the city and pictures showed an underpass completely flooded with vehicles trapped in the deep water.
The owner of one of the vehicles, Abu Ibrahim, blamed the Municipality of Baghdad for the lack of services.
"No good sewers and no drainage caused such a bad situation," he said.
Another resident, enterprisingly using the shell of a refrigerator to travel through the water, said that cars were too difficult to drive in the flooded streets.
''The streets are filled with water. Cars are overflowing with it," he said.
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