Airlines stop flights to Baghdad after shooting

posted on: Jan 28, 2015

Foreign airlines flying to Baghdad have cancelled flights landing at the city’s international airport after a FlyDubai passenger jet was shot at while approaching the Iraq capital.

An aviation official and a security official told Reuters news agency that two passengers were lightly injured when three or four bullets hit the body of the plane on Monday evening but they were unable to specify the source of the gunfire.

Flydubai, Emirates, Sharjah’s Air Arabia and Abu Dhabi’s Etihad were the first to suspend flights following the incident, in line with a directive from the United Arab Emirates’ civil aviation authority.

Source: www.aljazeera.com