4:3 Fuel shortages continue in oil-rich city of Kirkuk

Описание: (25 Jun 2014) The northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk was in the midst of a fuel crisis on Wednesday, after being taken over by Kurdish security forces known as peshmerga.
Despite the region being rich in oil, long queues stretched out from closed petrol stations, where people complained they had been waiting to buy fuel for days.
Northern oil fields imperiled by the advance of ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) have been shut down, and companies have begun evacuating workers elsewhere in the country.
On the streets of Kirkuk vendors have set up stalls selling gasoline and benzene from jerry cans and plastic bottles.
The Kurds have deployed their own well-trained security forces known as peshmerga and seized long-coveted ground of their own in the name of defending it from ISIL and other Sunni insurgents who have swept through the north.
The Kurds are unlikely to give up that territory, including the disputed oil-rich city of Kirkuk, regardless of the status of the fighting.
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