BP in oil field where 'cancer is like the flu'
Communities living close to oil fields, where gas is openly burned, are at elevated risk of leukaemia, a BBC News Arabic investigation has revealed./ The UN told the BBC it considers these areas, in Iraq, to be "modern sacrifice zones" - where profit has been prioritised over human rights./ released in oil drilling, which produces cancer-linked pollutants./ BP and Eni are major oil companies we identified as working on these sites./ On the outskirts of Basra, in the south-east of Iraq, lie some of the country's biggest oil exploration areas ...
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