One killed, four rescued in five-vehicle pileup on Baghdad road

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Civil Defense Directorate said one person was killed and four were rescued after five vehicles collided in a chain-reaction crash on the road to Muthenna Airport on Baghdad's Karkh side. The directorate said rescue teams were dispatched immediately after the crash report was received. According to the directorate, crews used hydraulic cutting and separation equipment to free people trapped inside the vehicles, cutting through wreckage to reach and extract the injured. The injured were transferred to the nearest hospital for treatment. The directorate confirmed the final toll from the crash as one death and four injured across the five vehicles involved. No further details were immediately available on what caused the pileup.