at least one there are hundreds of people dead More than 150 people were injured when a wedding hall burned down during the celebration in the Nineveh region of Iraq.
“The Nineveh Ministry of Health recorded a preliminary figure of 100 deaths and more than 150 injuries as a result of the fire at the wedding hall in Al Hamdaniya,” Ministry of Health spokesman Saif al Badr said, according to the Iraqi INA news agency. After a short time, Iraqi Red Crescent announced on social networks that the death toll has risen above 450.
Earlier, the country’s prime minister, Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, had ordered the mobilization of all resources to help those affected.
As his office posted on his account on social network X (formerly Twitter), Al Sudani spoke by phone with the governor of the region to determine the consequences of the fire.