Nearly 1,000 treated due to burning sulphur south of Mosul

Nearly 1,000 people have been treated for breathing problems linked to fumes from a burning sulphur plant set ablaze during fighting with Islamic State near Mosul, local hospital said on Saturday. A sulphur plant caught fire this week as the Iraqi army dislodged militants from Mishraq, south of Mosul. No deaths were reported in connection with the incident, said sources at a hospital in Qayyara, also south of Mosul. The first cases began arriving on Friday morning, they said. Children with relentless coughs came into a clinic in the district after breathing in the toxic fumes. Doctors treated them with oxygen masks. U.S officials said the militants set the plant ablaze. Iraqi state TV said it the fire has been put out on Saturday.