{"id":8339,"date":"2023-09-27T09:32:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T09:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/more-than-100-dead-150-injured-in-iraq-wedding-inferno-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2023-09-27T09:32:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T09:32:07","slug":"more-than-100-dead-150-injured-in-iraq-wedding-inferno-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/more-than-100-dead-150-injured-in-iraq-wedding-inferno-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 100 dead, 150 injured in Iraq wedding inferno | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<strong class=\"location-names\"><br \/>\nIRAQ:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More than 100 people were killed and 150 injured in a fire at a wedding party in Hamdaniya district in Iraq&#8217;s Nineveh province that left civil defence searching the charred skeleton of a building for survivors into the early hours of Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Nineveh Deputy Governor Hassan al-Allaq told Reuters that 113 people had been confirmed dead, with state media putting the death toll at at least 100, with 150 people injured.<\/p>\n<p>The fire ripped through a large events hall in the north-eastern region after fireworks were lit during the celebration, local civil defence said, according to state media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We saw the fire pulsating, coming out of the hall. Those who managed got out and those who didn&#8217;t got stuck. Even those who made their way out were broken,&#8221; said Imad Yohana, a 34-year-old who escaped the inferno.<\/p>\n<p>Video from a Reuters correspondent at the site showed firefighters clambering over the charred wreckage of the building, shining lights over smouldering ruins.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary information indicated that the building was made of highly flammable construction materials, contributing to its rapid collapse, state media said.<\/p>\n<p>Ambulances and medical crews were dispatched to the site by federal Iraqi authorities and Iraq&#8217;s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, according to official statements.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses at the site said the building caught fire at around 10:45 p.m. local time (1945 GMT) and that hundreds of people were in attendance at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v5.0&#038;appId=419051588770002&#038;autoLogAppEvents=1\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IRAQ: More than 100 people were killed and 150 injured in a fire at a wedding party in Hamdaniya district in Iraq&#8217;s Nineveh province that left civil defence searching the charred skeleton of a building for survivors into the early hours of Wednesday. 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