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An emergency employee walks over rubble on the website following a deadly fireplace at a wedding celebration in Iraq’s Nineveh province, on September 27.
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A fireplace at a wedding in northern Iraq has killed at least 100 folks and injured 150 others, in accordance with the Iraqi state information company INA citing native authorities.
The catastrophe in the Hamdaniya district of northeast Nineveh governorate, was set off by fireworks, candles, and different supplies used through the wedding celebration, the Iraqi Civil Defense mentioned.
Nineveh governor Najm Al-Jubouri informed the Iraqi state information company INA that the injured had been transferred to hospitals in Nineveh and the Kurdistan area.
“There is no final count of the deceased and injured yet,” Al-Jubouri mentioned, in accordance with INA.
Videos from the scene present thick smoke billowing out of the on the Al Haytham Wedding Hall whereas crowds and ambulances collect outdoors.
A wedding visitor informed native media that the bride and groom had been secure however devastated.
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People collect outdoors a hospital following the deadly fireplace.
“The bride and groom are fine. I was just with them now, but their condition is devastating due to what happened to people here,” the visitor informed personal Iraqi channel Alawla TV.
The wedding corridor the place the fireplace broke out was lined with extremely flammable Ecobond panels that violated security directions necessities, in accordance with the Iraqi Civil Defense, ANI reported.
“The fire led to the collapse of parts of the hall as a result of the use of highly flammable, low-cost building materials that collapse within minutes when fire breaks out,” the Civil Defense assertion mentioned.
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Iraqi officers stroll on the website of a fireplace that tore by way of a wedding celebration.
Prime Minister Mohammed Shiaa Al-Sudani has instructed his cupboard to help these affected by the fireplace, in accordance with a press release from his workplace.
The Iraqi chief has been in contact with the Nineveh governor by phone concerning the incident and ordered a full mobilization to help the victims, in accordance with his workplace and INA.
The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq expressed its condolences to members of the family of these killed and injured Tuesday, calling the incident “an immense tragedy.”
“Shocked and pained by the horrible loss of life and injuries in the fire,” the mission mentioned on X, previously often known as Twitter.
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