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Two elderly retirees of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) died early Sunday while waiting to be paid their delayed salaries in front of a governmental bank in Sulaimaniyah city. “Early today two retired men, Azad Esmael, 76, and Aziz Ebrahim, 70, died in front of Tanjaro Bank in Sulaimaniyah as pensioners overcrowded and pushed to enter the bank,” Saman Nadir, head of the emergency centre in Sulaimaniyah told The New Arab during an interview over the phone. The KRG administers a semi-autonomous northern region of Iraq since 1992. Since 2014, the KRG exports nearly 45,000 barrels of oil p…