With temperatures that can go above 50C (122F), Iraqi building sites have long been a hazardous place to work in summer. Labourers grapple with bricks that are too hot to touch and tiles that can burn. Some faint and fall from buildings.
The risks are growing in a country which the United Nations has identified as the fifth-most vulnerable to climate change, prompting calls for a rethink of work practices and better safeguards - in construction and more widely
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