Basra

The authorities were forced to shut down airports in the provinces of Najaf and Basra.

Belgium reportedly denied him asylum by arguing that Basra, his hometown in Iraq, was classified as a safe area.

The tanker had been off the city of Basra, Iraq, loading crude oil bound for Aliaga, Turkey, for the Turkish refinery firm Tupras.

"At one point we stopped just outside Basra," she said.

"There are barriers around talking about breasts in the community and checking breasts is often seen as a sexual thing," says Manveet Basra, the charity's associate director of public health.