A mosque and its 300-year-old minaret have been demolished in Iraq’s southern metropolis of Basra, to permit a street to be expanded.
Native folks say the destruction of the Siraji minaret and its mosque is an erosion of Iraq’s heritage.
Antiquities officers say they didn’t allow the demolition and the minaret ought to have been preserved. Basra’s governor defended the transfer and blamed the antiquities authorities for failing to relocate the mosque final yr.
Heritage conservationists worry extra websites will probably be destroyed.
Al Jazeera’s Mahmoud Abdelwahed stories from Basra, Iraq.
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