Four people died, including two engineers, and a fifth Ministry of Electricity employee was injured in a traffic accident in the Alexandria district, north of Hilla, on Monday evening.

Babylon Traffic Police Information Director, Brigadier General Zahir Muhammad, said, “A car carrying five Ministry of Electricity employees overturned on the edge of the highway linking Babylon and Baghdad near the Alexandria district, north of Hilla, on Monday evening, leading to the death of four people and the serious injury of a fifth person.”

He added that the police transferred the bodies to the forensic medicine office and that an investigation was opened into the incident.

Source: National Iraqi News Agency