The Iraqi Red Crescent announced, at dawn on Wednesday, the high number of victims and injured due to a fire that broke out in a wedding hall

 

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 Edited  by |ANNA sam

 

Middle East section -  CJ journalist

 

Nineveh– September,27,2023

 

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In the town of Hamdaniya in Nineveh province in northern Iraq during a wedding ceremony on the night of Tuesday-Wednesday, to more than 450 people،

Earlier, it was announced that more than 100 people were killed and more than 150 others were injured.

The civil defense was searching for survivors amid the charred wreckage of the building until the early hours of this morning.

The deputy governor of Nineveh, Hassan al-Allaf, told Reuters that it was confirmed that 113 people were killed

Earlier, the official Iraqi news agency quoted the Nineveh Governorate health department as saying that "100 deaths were recorded

More than 150 people are injured as a preliminary result" of the disaster that befell the Christian town located east of the city of Mosul.

At Hamdaniya General Hospital, ambulances were seen rushing back and forth to transport the injured, while they gathered in front of the hospital

Dozens of people, including relatives of the victims and other residents came to donate blood.

For its part, the Civil Defense said that "preliminary information" indicates that the cause of the fire was " the use of fireworks during a ceremony

The wedding", which led to "starting a fire inside the hall at first", and then the fire spread "very quickly".

He added in a statement that the concert hall lacked "safety requirements from wet alarm and Fire Systems".

He added that the hall is "coated with ecobond panels", a building material made of aluminum and plastic and "highly flammable", explaining

That the use of such panels in construction is "contrary to the safety instructions" prescribed by law.

According to the Civil Defense, " the fire led to the collapse of parts of the hall as a result of the use of low flammable building materials

The cost falls within minutes when the fire breaks out".

Safety regulations are often not adhered to in Iraq, where infrastructure is dilapidated as a result of decades of conflict, which repeatedly leads to

To the outbreak of fires and other deadly disasters.

Prime Minister Mohammed Shiaa al-Sudani, on Wednesday, directed the ministers of Interior and health to mobilize all efforts to relief

Affected by the fire in Nineveh.

Interior minister Abdul Amir al-Shammari confirmed that civil defense teams managed to evacuate all those injured in a fire incident

Al-Hamdaniya.

Al-Shammari told the Iraqi news agency that he " went to Nineveh province to find out the repercussions of the wedding halls fire incident

In Hamdaniya". "The Civil Defense managed to evacuate all those injured in the fire incident,"he added.

In turn, the president of the Kurdistan Regional Government Masrour Barzani directed the minister of Health in the region to send a large number of cars

Ambulances from Erbil to Hamdaniya district to help transport the injured with the direction of Erbil hospitals to treat them.

 

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